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making^¹

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
/ˈmɛkɪn/ Northumbria
/ˈmækɪn/ Wearside

Rhymes with -eɪkɪŋ

Where it comes from

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with dated Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

noun makings · makeing · makin · makkin · makin' · mekin

countable, uncountable The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. during the making of the movie
countable, uncountable Process of growth or development. As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.
countable, uncountable Something that causes somebody's success or progress a book that was the making of his career

making^²

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
/ˈmɛkɪn/ Northumbria
/ˈmækɪn/ Wearside

Rhymes with -eɪkɪŋ

verb makeing · makin · makkin · makin' · mekin · myekin

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: fashioning, devising, maker, fabrication, production, shaping, put, placing, forming, elaboration, order, convert, raise, development, manufacture, transforming

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noun act — see also workmanship, construction

Español	hacimiento, facimiento (desus.), hechura, fechura (disused)
हिन्दी	सृजन sŕjan
Deutsch	Anfertigen, Anfertigung, Fabrikation, Herstellung

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@misc{making_2026,
  title = {making},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/making},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}