different between making vs creation

English

Alternative forms

• makeing (obsolete)
• makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
• makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
• myekin (Tyneside, dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?k??/
• Rhymes: -e?k??
• Hyphenation: mak?ing

Etymology 1

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

Noun

making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)

1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. Process of growth or development.

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

Derived terms

• brushmaking, brush-making
• decision-making
• history-making
• making of

Translations

Etymology 2

From make +? -ing.

Verb

making

1. present participle 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^[sic] eat.

English

Etymology

From Middle English creacion, creacioun, creation, from Old French creacion (French création), from Latin cre?ti?, creationis; equivalent to create +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?i??e???n/
• IPA^(key): [k?i???e???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

creation (countable and uncountable, plural creations)

1. (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.

2. (uncountable) The act of creating something.

3. (uncountable) All which exists.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• actioner, actorine, anoretic, anticore, reaction, reäction

Interlingua

Noun

creation (plural creationes)

1. creation

Middle English

Noun

creation

1. Alternative form of creacion