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FASHIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fashioning mean? 

FASHIONING (noun)
  The noun FASHIONING has 1 sense:

1. the act that results in something coming to beplay

  Familiarity information: FASHIONING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FASHIONING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act that results in something coming to be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

devising; fashioning; making

Context example:

it was already in the making

Hypernyms ("fashioning" is a kind of...):

production (the act or process of producing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fashioning"):

cartography; mapmaking (the making of maps and charts)

film making; movie making; moviemaking (the production of movies)

Derivation:

fashion (make out of components (often in an improvising manner))


 Context examples 


For the rest, I know a little of the making of covers, the cutting of precious stones, and the fashioning of instruments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cosmic crash was a defining event in the early history of the Milky Way and reshaped the structure of our galaxy, fashioning both the galaxy’s inner bulge and its outer halo.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)



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