takingとは

意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

taking (comparative more taking, superlative most taking)

1. 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—”

   • 1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:

     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; […]

2. (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.

派生語

• takingly
• takingness

名詞

taking (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 takings)

1. 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.

   • 2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75:

     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.

2. (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
3. (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene III:

     What a taking was hee in, when your husband askt who was in the basket?

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321:

     "[...] 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. [...]

   • 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.”

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102:

     ‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’

   • 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.”

4. (in the plural) Cash or money received (by a shop または 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.

   • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:

     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; [...].

   • 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.

動詞

taking

1. present participle of take
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619, page 16:

     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.