making in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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making [Brit ˈmeɪkɪŋ, Am ˈmeɪkɪŋ] N

See also watchmaking, matchmaking

matchmaking [Brit ˈmatʃmeɪkɪŋ, Am ˈmætʃˌmeɪkɪŋ] N

cringe-making [Am ˈkrɪndʒˌmeɪkɪŋ] ADJ

making in the PONS Dictionary

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non-profit, non-profit-making ADJ Am

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making Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

this is a disaster in the making
il y a un désastre qui se prépare
she is a star in the making
c'est une vedette de demain
to be of one's own making
être de sa faute
to be good at love-making
bien savoir faire l'amour
how are you making out?
tu t'en sors?
the patient is making progress
l'état du patient s'améliore
making up for hours lost/the delay
rattrapage des heures perdues/du retard
to take off without making a fuss
partir sans demander son reste
to keep making stops on a journey
faire un voyage entrecoupé de haltes
the snow is making the trees bend
la neige plie les arbres
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For billions, it has been death on an installment plan decades in the making.
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The primary basis for eligibility was later changed to age, making the tournament open only to wrestlers who are 25 years old or younger.
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The women are proficient in pottery and the making of abacha varieties - food items deriving from cooked cassava tubers shredded to sizes and types.
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Some technologies can have exponential scaling if used in isolation, making the effect of combinations be of counter-intuitive magnitude.
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The freezing squeezes the heat out of the droplets, making the thundercloud draftier.
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After making a minor adjustment to the device, he opened a stopcock leading into one of the cylinders and the witnesses heard a hiss as of escaping air.
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So, even when they're both making exactly the same tone, there's still something completely different going on under the hood.
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This would create an indigenous and mestizo class of tradesmen in carpentry, pottery, canoe making, locksmithing, ironworkers and much more.
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This method of locomotion is extremely slow, but is also almost noiseless and very hard to detect, making it the mode of choice for many species when stalking prey.
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The species has a body length of approximately 4.0 mm and a fore-wing length of 5.7 mm making it the smallest species known.
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