making
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- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
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- 6
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Definition of making
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
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(countable, uncountable)Process of growth or development.
“As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.”
verb
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(form-of, 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.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Old English macung Middle English making English making From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with dated Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.
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