fash·ion

(făsh′ən)

1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.

2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.

a. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion. See Synonyms at method.

b. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.

4. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.

5. Shape or form; configuration: a garden triangular in fashion.

tr.v. fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions

1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.

2. To train or influence into a particular state or character: The teacher fashions her students into fine singers.

3. Archaic To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.

4. Obsolete To contrive.

Idiom:

after/in a fashion

In some way or other, especially to a limited extent: She sings after a fashion.

[Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, appearance, manner, from Latin factiō, factiōn-, a making, from factus, past participle of facere, to make, do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

fash′ion·er n.

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Noun

fashioning - the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"

devising, making

production - the act or process of producing something; "Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous"; "the production of white blood cells"

cartography, mapmaking - the making of maps and charts

film making, movie making, moviemaking - the production of movies