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making (root: make)

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mak=ing

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89 in 87 verses (in OT : 67 in 65 verses) (in NT : 22 in 22 verses)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun making has 3 senses

making(n = noun.act) devising, fashioning - the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"

is a kind of production

has particulars: cartography, mapmaking, film making, movie making, moviemaking

Derived forms verb make₃, verb make₆, verb make₉, verb make₁₅, verb make₁₇, verb make₃₀

making(n = noun.attribute) qualification - an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician"

is a kind of fitness, fittingness

has particulars: eligibility, ineligibility

Derived form verb make₄₇

making(n = noun.artifact) Array - (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake"

Derived forms verb make₃₁, verb make₃₀

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CIDE DICTIONARY

making, n.

The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power. [1913 Webster]
Composition, or structure. [1913 Webster]
a poem. Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him. [1913 Webster]
External appearance; from. Shak. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

making, n.
1 in senses of MAKE v.
2 (in pl.) a earnings; profit. b (foll. by of) essential qualities or ingredients (has the makings of a general; we have the makings of a meal). c US & Austral. colloq. paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette.

Idiom

be the making of ensure the success or favourable development of. in the making in the course of being made or formed.

Etymology

OE macung (as MAKE)

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THESAURUS

making

accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assembly, attainment, batch, build, building, casting, coming by, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, dragging down, earnings, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, gaining, getting, getting hold of, getup, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, lot, machining, make, makeup, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mold, molding, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, obtainment, obtention, organic structure, organism, organization, pattern, patterning, physique, plan, prefabrication, preparation, processing, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, producing, production, raising, refining, run, securement, setup, shape, shaping, smelting, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, tissue, trover, warp and woof, weave, web, winning, workmanship

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