making
Bringing into existence
Making is the act of creating or producing something: the making of a film, bread making.
The phrase in the making describes something being formed or developed: a disaster in the making, history in the making.
If an experience is the making of someone, it shapes them into who they become.
The makings are the necessary qualities or ingredients: She has the makings of a great leader.
Coming into existence
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
- constructingActively assembling or building
- designingPlanning how something appears
- developingBecoming more advanced
producing · generating · fashioning · shaping · molding · assembling · composing · crafting
Industrial production facility
- productionMaking or generating something
- assemblyConstructing from components
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
automation · conveyor · plant · machinery · workshop · output · yield · mill
Handmade work product
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- workmanshipSkill in creating objects
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- skillAcquired ability through practice
dexterity · precision · carpentry · pottery · weaving · blacksmithing · leatherwork · glassblowing
Making something exist
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
brushstrokes · medium · oils · acrylics · watercolors · sketch · collage · installation
Point of creation
- beginningInitial stage of something
- inceptionFounding moment
- formationCreation or arrangement
- foundationUnderlying support structure
source · birth · emergence · conception · initiation · founding · establishment · groundwork
Making or generating
- generatingCreating or making
- causingMaking occur
- triggeringCausing to activate
- inducingCausing or bringing about
provoking · prompting · spawning · eliciting · effecting · occasioning
Creating something original
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- deviceConstructed tool or machine
discovery · engineering · brainstorming · experimentation · ingenuity · creativity · design · gadget
forming
Coming into existence
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
- constructingActively assembling or building
- designingPlanning how something appears
developing · producing · generating · fashioning · shaping · molding · assembling · composing · crafting · fabricating
factory
Industrial production facility
- productionMaking or generating something
- assemblyConstructing from components
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
mass-production · automation · conveyor · plant · machinery · workshop · output · yield · mill · foundry
handiwork
Handmade work product
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- workmanshipSkill in creating objects
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
skill · dexterity · precision · carpentry · pottery · weaving · blacksmithing · leatherwork · glassblowing · joinery
creation
Making something exist
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
palette · brushstrokes · medium · oils · acrylics · watercolors · sketch · collage · installation · mixed-media
genesis
Point of creation
foundation · source · birth · emergence · conception · initiation · founding · establishment · groundwork · roots
producing
Making or generating
- generatingCreating or making
- causingMaking occur
- triggeringCausing to activate
inducing · provoking · prompting · spawning · eliciting · effecting · occasioning
innovation
Creating something original
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
device · discovery · engineering · brainstorming · experimentation · ingenuity · creativity · design · gadget · solution
- creatingcreating, inventing, producing, generating, devising
- gerundswalking, running, talking, eating, sleeping
- creative actscreating, designing, drawing, sculpting, composing
- makingcrafting, building, creating, DIY projects, constructing
- craftskill, technique, craftsmanship, workmanship, handiwork
- verb formsam, are, is, was, were
makingdestruction
Act of completely ruining
destroying · demolition · annihilation · unmaking · ruination
makingconsuming
Using up entirely
consumption · using · depleting · exhausting · spending
makinginaction
Deliberate nonmovement
idleness · passivity · inactivity · stagnation · doing nothing
- making moneyGaining wealth through work
- making senseBecoming logically coherent
- making outExtended romantic kissing
- making sureConfirming something is so
- making upInventing or reconciling
- making a livingEarning enough to survive