taking

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Alluring

   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 […]
   • His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
   • “Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”
2. 2

   Infectious

   Infectious; contagious.

   • All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness!
   • Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company.
3. 3

   The act by which something is taken.

   • At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
   • Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
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   1. 4

      A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.

   2. 5

      A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression…

      A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).

      • What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?
      • “And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”
   3. 6

      Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).

      • Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
      • Count the shop's takings.
      • [...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.
   4. 7

      present participle and gerund of take

      • 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.

The neighborhood

• synonymacquisition
• synonymtaking
• antonymbestowal
• antonymrestitution
• neighborside-taking
• neighbortake
• neighbortaker
• neighborreceiving
• neighborseizure