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making definition

mak·ing (māk′iŋ)

noun

  1. the act of one that makes or the process of being made; formation, construction, creation, production, composition, manufacture, development, performance, etc.
  2. the cause or means of success or advancement an experience that will be the making of him
    1. something made
    2. the quantity made at one time
    1. the material or qualities needed for the making or development of something to have the makings of a good doctor
    2. ☆ Informal tobacco and paper for making one's own cigarettes: usually preceded by the

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making Synonyms

making

modif.

  1. Preparing

    forming, fashioning, manufacturing, producing, fabricating, constructing, forging, turning out, executing, effecting, shaping, building, creating, accomplishing, generating, originating, composing.

  2. Totaling

    computing, constituting, reckoning, concluding, consisting of, aggregating, summing, adding up to, producing, arriving at, completing.


making

n.

imagination, conception, formulation, devising, fancying, producing, constituting, occasioning, causation, performing, fashioning, building, origination, shaping, forging, designing, planning, fabrication, composition, authoring, contriving; see also construction 1, production 1.


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making Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • featurette: The absence of a making of featurette or any interviews with the cast will disappoint fans of the movie.

Converse of object

  • authorize: The Bye-laws, in turn, authorize the making of rules for the regulation of the Association's affairs.

Adjective modifier

  • non-profit: Queen Mother Hospital for Animals Information for Clients Payment The hospital is a self-financing institution which is non-profit making.

Noun used with modifier

  • decision: No wonder decision making has become a lost art.
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making quotes

   If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very littleösomebody who is obsessed by Making.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Happiness is like cokeösomething you get as a by- product in the process of making something else.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard

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