making (root: make)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mak=ing
• COUNT in NET: 89 in 87 verses (in OT : 67 in 65 verses) (in NT : 22 in 22 verses)

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]

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)

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