Taking

What do we mean by taking?

Capturing interest; fetching. adjective

Contagious; catching. Used of an infectious disease. adjective

The act of one that takes. noun

Something taken, as a catch of fish. noun

An action by a government, especially under the power of eminent domain, that deprives a private owner of real property or of the use and enjoyment of that property. noun

Receipts, especially of money. noun

The act of one who takes, in any sense. noun

The state of being taken; especially, a state of agitation, distress, or perplexity; predicament; dilemma. noun

That which takes. noun

Hence— An attack of sickness; a sore. noun

That which is taken. noun

In printing, same as take, 3 . noun

Captivating; engaging; attractive; pleasing.

Blighting; baleful; noxious; spreading contagion; infectious.

Easily taken; contagious; catching.

The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension. noun

Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. noun

Malign influence; infection. noun

Apt to take; alluring; attracting. adjective

Infectious; contageous. adjective

To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.

To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

To remove.

To have sex with.

To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.

To grasp or grip.

To select or choose; to pick.

To adopt (select) as one's own.

To carry or lead (something or someone).

To use as a means of transportation.

To visit; to include in a course of travel.

To obtain for use by payment or lease.

To consume.

To experience, undergo, or endure.

To cause to change to a specified state or condition.

To regard in a specified way.

To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.

To understand (especially in a specified way).

To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).

To believe, to accept the statements of.

To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.

To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).

To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.

To catch or contract (an illness, etc).

To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).

To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.

(of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).

(of a ship) To let in (water).

To require.

To proceed to fill.

To fill, to use up (time or space).

To avail oneself of.

To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.

To assume or perform (a form or role).

To bind oneself by.

To move into.

To go into, through, or along.

To have and use one's recourse to.

To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.

To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.

To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).

To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).

To obtain money from, especially by swindling.

(now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.

To deal with.

To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.

To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.

To accept as an input to a relation.

To get or accept (something) into one's possession.

To engage, take hold or have effect.

To become; to be affected in a specified way.

(possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.

An intensifier.

To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).

(obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Words that are spelled similarly to taking:
taking, making, talking, taxing, baking, raking, takin, taping, staking, waking, tacking, tanking, caking, laking, yaking, tasking, taming, faking, toking, taring, aking, tawing, tasing, takins, tating, taing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word taking:
wicket, advantage, lessons, oath, consideration, account, place, seriously, innings, steps.

Words that rhyme with taking:
making, undertaking, groundbreaking, painstaking, breathtaking, decision making, breaking, baking, heartbreaking, shaking, raking, flaking, policymaking, handshaking, staking, waking, quaking, filmmaking, caking, mistaking, muckraking, rulemaking, matchmaking, faking, moneymaking, braking, forsaking, overtaking, earthshaking, printmaking, snaking, slaking, lawmaking, retaking, bookmaking, steelmaking, remaking, peacemaking, homemaking, dangerous undertaking, papermaking, dealmaking, dressmaking, moviemaking, maikong, glassmaking, lace making, lawbreaking, print making, basketmaking, away king, birthday king, break ing, che kung, day king, decisionmaking, grey king, holloway king, j king, jake hung, k king, lake king, lei kung, make king, obey king, pay king, play king, profittaking, railway king, ray king, re king, say king, snake hung, snake king, spake king, take king, way king, wei qing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe taking:
risk, leave, note, turn, drug, worth, hostage, actual, history, careful, wrongful, census, role, snuff, stock, mere, decision, excessive, final, sexual, felonious, formal, test, regulatory, illegal, unlawful, deliberate, forcible, pill, conversational, compulsory, partial, case, action, profit, intentional, temporary, interest, trophy, accurate, life, side, mutual, thorough, frequent, solemn, incidental, unauthorized, picture, routine, price, compensable, oath, tortious, time, systematic, poll, sad, adolescent, unjust, entrepreneurial, voluntary, title.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective taking:
behavior, skills, behaviors, strategies, ability, process, behaviour, system, activities, institutions, abilities, ceremony, care, techniques, attitudes, beauty, patterns, propensity, attitude, situations, activity, experience, strategy, speed, view, skill, situation, opportunities, session, action, procedures, off, companies, tasks, firm, theory, stock, tips, task, rules, habits, procedure, behaviours, capacity, ceremonies, model, verbs, experiences, advantage, tip, firms, decisions, processes, charge, technique, function, practices, entrepreneurs, style, games, sight, notes, business, environment, views, organization, services, propensities, exercise, stage, responsibility, performance, institution, rituals, scene, predicate, game, anxiety, tendencies, sessions, ritual, pace, aptitude, functions, accuracy, motivation.

Consonant match to taking:
talking, ticking, tacking, tucking, t king, ta kung, tai kung, tak ing, take king, talk ing, te king, thai king, ti kung, to king, took king.

Words that sound like taking:
taking, talking, ticking, takin, toking, tucking, tacking, take in, take-in, taken, tagging, tugging, staking, tokin, takings, take on, take aim, tuck in, tuck-in, take wing, togging, shaking, waking, ducking, docking, decking, dicking, duking, diking, dakin, dyking, dakine, deking, daikin, daykin, token, talkin, toucan, tucan, ticken, to come, tacon, taichung, tecum, take all, teaching, stocking, touching, stacking, stalking, attacking, taxing, sticking, tycoon, tracking, trucking, tweaking, tricking, tying, toying, tackling, tasking, towing, trekking, tanking, stoking, tailing, toeing, tating, tinking, taiko, take it, taing, teeing, toing, tonking, daken, took on, torquing, triking, tack on, tusking, stooking, tacan, tickings, talcking, hiking, hacking, hawking, hooking, hocking, hoking, high king, checking, chocking, caking, chalking, cheeking, chaikin, chequing.