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Making vs Forming - What's the difference?

making | forming |

As nouns the difference between making and forming

is that making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction while forming is the act by which something is formed; formation.

As verbs the difference between making and forming

is that making is present participle of lang=en while forming is present participle of lang=en.

making

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
  • Process of growth or development.
    • ''As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making .

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas

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    forming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is formed; formation.
  • * 1987 , Jeffrey K. Zeig, The Evolution of Psychotherapy