different between making vs keeping

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??

Noun

keeping (countable and uncountable, plural keepings)

1. conformity or harmony.

2. charge or care.

   • His happiness is in his own keeping.

3. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.

Translations

Verb

keeping

1. present participle of keep

Derived terms

• in keeping with

Anagrams

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