MAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does making mean? 

• MAKING (noun)
  The noun MAKING has 3 senses:

1. the act that results in something coming to be

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

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

  Familiarity information: MAKING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act that results in something coming to be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

devising; fashioning; making

Context example:

it was already in the making

Hypernyms ("making" is a kind of...):

production (the act or process of producing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "making"):

cartography; mapmaking (the making of maps and charts)

film making; movie making; moviemaking (the production of movies)

Derivation:

make (make or cause to be or to become)

make (create or manufacture a man-made product)

make (create by artistic means)

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

make (make by combining materials and parts)

make (undergo fabrication or creation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

making; qualification

Context example:

she has the makings of fine musician

Hypernyms ("making" is a kind of...):

fitness; fittingness (the quality of being suitable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "making"):

eligibility (the quality or state of being eligible)

ineligibility (the quality or state of being ineligible)

Derivation:

make (develop into)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake

Hypernyms ("making" is a kind of...):

component; constituent; element (an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system)

Derivation:

make (be suitable for)

make (undergo fabrication or creation)

 Context examples 

Jupiter and Neptune will boost your social life to a vibrant level, and you will enjoy making new friends.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"I wish you all good-night, now," said he, making a movement of the hand towards the door, in token that he was tired of our company, and wished to dismiss us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And, indeed, to own the truth, I do not think nurse, in her heart, is a very strenuous opposer of Sir Walter's making a second match.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Some hours later we saw them in single file far out upon the plain, each with a bundle on his head, making their way back along the path we had come.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other men had discovered the trick of expression, of making words obedient servitors, and of making combinations of words mean more than the sum of their separate meanings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In a tingle of fear I was already running down the village street, and making for the path which I had so lately descended.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I cannot be satisfied without Fanny Price, without making a small hole in Fanny Price's heart.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The next step is making the device more efficient and making a physical computer that could work in the highest of temperatures, he added.

(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Long after this, a man was making his way through the wood when he heard a raven calling, and he followed the sound of the voice.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Do you find Bath as agreeable as when I had the honour of making the inquiry before?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)