making
/ˈmeɪkɪŋ
/noun
1 [mass noun] The process of making or producing something: the making of videos [in combination]: decision-making...
- For example, we developed every major innovation in the iron and steel making process.
- Moreover, actual decision making was more complex than simply one drug and its attendant cluster of factors.
- Should children not be involved in the actual making of those films?
Synonyms
manufacture, manufacturing, mass production, building, construction, assembly, production, producing, creation, creating, putting together, modelling, fabrication, invention, forming, formation, moulding, forging, composition
2 (makings) The essential qualities needed for something: she had the makings of a great teacher...
- Essentially, we now have the makings of a scrap over Britain's life companies that was predicted by this paper at the turn of the year.
- Put all these volatile elements together and we certainly have the makings of a heady, and potentially somewhat unstable, mixture for investment opportunities.
- The Penguins had all the makings of a Cup contender: a lethal offense, good goaltending, and good coaching.
Synonyms
qualities, characteristics, ingredients, potential, promise, capacity, capability;
essentials, essence, beginnings, rudiments, basics, materials, stuff
2.1 (makings) North American & Australian /NZ informal Paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette: he reached for his tobacco tin and makings...
- Deputy French took a small white bag of tobacco from his shirt pocket, shaking the makings into a waiting cigarette paper, he began to roll it round.
3 (makings) informal, dated Earnings or profit.
Phrases
be the making of someone
in the making
of one's (own) making