making
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 →
2) Makings means the things needed to make something, such as the ingredients for a cake. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It is just the act of making or doing something. In the texts it can mean "doing" a thing, such as making a petition or making sport. In the primary lessons: in tales, the ingredients or materials someone needs to cook or build something
examples
- Then these men came tumultuously, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. (Writings DAN.6.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport. (Torah GEN.21.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all. (Prophets HOS.5.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. (Prophets 1KI.4.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- You will not get any makings of a cake from me. tree →
- We went out to the merry-makings in the village. tree →
- I have the makings of a good tea here. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.
- Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth;
- And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all.
- The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «making» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.