different between making vs laking
making
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)
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- 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
- 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.
- 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
making From the web:
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laking
English
Verb
laking
- present participle of lake
laking From the web:
- what does laking mean
- what does lacking mean
- what is lacking in biology
- what does laking do
- what does caught lacking mean
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