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Taking
Definitions
- 1 Alluring; attractive.
"[…] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]"
- 2 Infectious; contagious. obsolete
"All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness!"
- 1 very attractive; capturing interest wordnet
- 1 The act by which something is taken. countable, uncountable
"At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting."
- 2 the act of someone who picks up or takes something wordnet
- 3 A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. uncountable
- 4 A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). uncountable
"What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?"
- 5 Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable
"Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week."
- 1 present participle and gerund of take form-of, gerund, participle, present
"Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them."
Etymology
By surface analysis, take + -ing.
By surface analysis, take + -ing.
By surface analysis, take + -ing.
See also for "taking"
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