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 →

2) Makings means the things needed to make something, such as the ingredients for a cake. tree →

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 →
• 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

• Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money.
• Coming home with flowers the day after a row is making up, a way of saying sorry and wanting to be friends again.
• Now, who's making the popcorn?"
• When a chatbot describes its weekend or its picnic, it is making up a story, because it has no weekends.
• Picture-making AI learned from millions of pictures with descriptions and builds new pictures that fit the words.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «making» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.