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# making

«making» in Mova's school dictionary: **the act of making or forming something, as in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural makings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making is the act of making or forming something, as in merry-makings, which are parties or festivities. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/#m1)

2) Makings means the things needed to make something, such as the ingredients for a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the ingredients or materials someone needs to cook or build something

### examples

- You will not get any makings of a cake from me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/#x1)
- We went out to the merry-makings in the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/#x2)
- I have the makings of a good tea here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/8/)
- [Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/9/)
- [Now, who's making the popcorn?"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/7/)
- [When a chatbot describes its weekend or its picnic, it is making up a story, because it has no weekends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/12/)
- [Picture-making AI learned from millions of pictures with descriptions and builds new pictures that fit the words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «making» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/making/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.