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/ˈteɪkɪŋ/
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ˈteɪkɪŋ
Adjective
Alluring; attractive.
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[…] 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—”
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The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]
Infectious; contagious.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.
Noun
The act by which something is taken.
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At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
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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.
A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
Usage- Uncountable
A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
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What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?
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"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking. "'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]
“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.”
‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’
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“[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.”
Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
Usage- Commonwealth usage
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Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
Count the shop's takings.
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[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.
According to T. B. Sands in his history of the M.S.W.J.R. (Oakwood Press: 8s 6d) Fay at first had to await cash takings from stations before he could pay his staff; [...].
The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.
Adjective
very attractive; capturing interest
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a fetching new hairstyle
something inexpressibly taking in his manner
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a winning personality
Noun
the act of someone who picks up or takes something
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the pickings were easy
clothing could be had for the taking