making

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something

   the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake

2. 2
   noun

   Process of growth or development.

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

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   the act that results in something coming to be

5. 5
   noun

   an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something

6. 6
   noun

   The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

Etymology

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