taking

suomi-englanti sanakirja

taking englannista suomeksi

  1. hurmaava, puoleensavetävä, viehättävä

  2. otto, ottaminen

  1. hurmaava, viehättävä

  2. Substantiivi

  3. takavarikointi, pidätys

  4. Verbi

taking englanniksi

  1. Alluring; attractive.

  2. (RQ:Fuller Church History) 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 (..)

  3. {{quote-book|en|year=1793|author=Charles Dibdin|title=The Younger Brother|location=London|publisher=for the author|volume=2|chapter=9|page=263|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004892630.0001.002

  4. {{quote-text|en|year=1878|author=Thomas Hardy|title=The Return of the Native|section=Book 3, Chapter 1|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17500/17500-h/17500-h.htm

  5. (quote-text)

  6. Infectious; contagious.

  7. (RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)

  8. (quote-text); Philip Massinger|title=The False One|section=act IV, scene 3|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14771/14771-h/14771-h.htm

  9. The act by which something is taken.

  10. {{quote-book|en|year=1900|author=Joseph Conrad|title=Lord Jim|location=Edinburgh and London|publisher=William Blackwood|chapter=27|page=290|url=https://archive.org/details/lordjimtale00conrrich/page/290

  11. (quote-book)

  12. A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.

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

  14. {{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=Thomas Hardy|title=Far from the Madding Crowd|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/107/107-h/107-h.htm|chapter=30

  15. {{quote-text|en|year=1970|author=Mary Stewart|title=The Crystal Cave|location=New York|publisher=Fawcett Crest|section=Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26|url=https://archive.org/details/cyrstalcave00stew

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

  17. (syn)

    ''Fred was concerned because the takings from his sweetshop had fallen again for the third week.''

    ''Count the shop's takings.''

  18. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=The Hogarth Press|year_published=1931|chapter=2|page=60|url=https://archive.org/details/woolf_aroom

  19. (quote-journal)

  20. {{quote-book|en|year=1995|author=Rohinton Mistry|title=A Fine Balance|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|chapter=12|pages=554–555|url=https://archive.org/details/finebalanc00mist

  21. (infl of)

  22. (RQ:Besant Ivory Gate), 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.

  23. boy