different between taking vs partaking
taking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?te?k??/
- Rhymes: -e?k??
Adjective
taking (comparative more taking, superlative most taking)
- Alluring; attractive.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: John Williams, “The Tenth Century,” p. 128,[1]
- […] 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 […]
- 1793, Charles Dibdin, The Younger Brother, London, for the author, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 263,[2]
- His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 3, Chapter 1,[3]
- “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—”
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: John Williams, “The Tenth Century,” p. 128,[1]
- (obsolete) Infectious; contagious.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[4]
- All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall
- On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
- You taking airs, with lameness!
- 1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
- Come not near me,
- For I am yet too taking for your company.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,[4]
Derived terms
- takingly
- takingness
Translations
Noun
taking (countable and uncountable, plural takings)
- The act by which something is taken.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Chapter 27,p. 290,[6]
- At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, Chapter 27,p. 290,[6]
- (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 30,[7]
- “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.”
- 1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26,[8]
- “[...] 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.”
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 30,[7]
- (in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- Synonyms: income, receipts
- Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.
- Count the shop's takings.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, London: The Hogarth Press, 1931, Chapter 2, p. 60,[9]
- [...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Chapter 12, pp. 554-555,[10]
- 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.
Translations
Verb
taking
- present participle of take
Tagalog
Noun
taking
- (Taal Batangas) boy
Synonyms
- itoy
- toto
- totoy
- tuto
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partaking
English
Verb
partaking
- present participle of partake
Noun
partaking (plural partakings)
- The act of taking part in something.
- (archaic) An act of taking sides; partiality.
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