making

English

Etymology

make +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: mak‧ing

Noun

making (plural makings)

1. Process of growth or development.

   As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

Translations

Translations

• German: Anfertigen (de) n, Anfertigung (de) f, Fabrikation (de) f, Herstellung (de) f

• Turkish: etme (tr), yapma (tr)

Verb

making

1. Present participle of make.

   Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: sn · really · replied · #374: making · towards · friends · forth