TAKING definition: the act of a person or thing that takes. See examples of taking used in a sentence.

Many of our lives are centered on taking care of the needs of everyone around us aside from ourselves. It wanders about a third of the time while a person is reading, talking with other …

take /teɪk/ vb (takes, taking, took, taken) (mainly tr) (also intr) to gain possession of (something) by force or effort to appropriate or steal to receive or accept into a relationship with oneself: to …

If you take patients or clients, you accept them as your patients or clients. Some universities would be forced to take more students than they wanted. [VERB noun] They were told that Dr …

Definition of take verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. Capturing interest; fetching: a taking smile. 2. Contagious; catching. Used of an infectious disease.

take, seize, grasp, clutch, snatch, grab mean to get hold of by or as if by catching up with the hand. take is a general term applicable to any manner of getting something into one's …

They practiced taking apart [= disassembling] their rifles and putting them back together again. Help me take this puzzle apart.

Ways to take include receiving, removing, capturing, picking something up, or being seized by something. Take has many, many senses and has found its way into many English expressions.

Take two tablets before bedtime.take drugs (=take illegal drugs) Most teenagers start taking drugs through boredom. She took an overdose after a row with her boyfriend.16 →do you take …