taking
Definitions
Noun
- The act of someone who picks up or takes something
Verb
- Carry out
- Require (time or space)
- Take somebody somewhere
- Get into one's hands, take physically
- Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- Take into one's possession
- Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- Receive willingly something given or offered
- Assume, as of positions or roles
- Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- Require as useful, just, or proper
- Experience or feel or submit to
- Make a film or photograph of something
- Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- Accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- Make use of or accept for some purpose
- Take by force
- Occupy or take on
- Admit into a group or community
- Ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- Be a student of a certain subject
- Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- Head into a specified direction
- Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- Be seized or affected in a specified way
- Have with oneself; have on one's person
- Engage for service under a term of contract
- Receive or obtain regularly
- Buy, select
- To get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- Have sex with; archaic use
- Lay claim to; as of an idea
- Be designed to hold or take
- Be capable of holding or containing
- Develop a habit
- Proceed along in a vehicle
- Obtain by winning
- Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
Fragment
Sounds Like
Spelled Like
Words That Follow
Words That Precede
Statistically Associated
Consonant Match
As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "taking".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | taking | 2 | 175 |
2 | undertaking | 4 | 5 |
3 | undertakings | 4 | 4 |
4 | breathtaking | 3 | 3 |
5 | mistaking | 3 | 2 |
6 | painstakingly | 4 | 2 |
7 | takings | 2 | 2 |
8 | painstaking | 3 | 1 |
9 | breathtakingly | 4 | 0 |
10 | overtaking | 4 | 0 |
11 | profittaking | 4 | 0 |
12 | retaking | 3 | 0 |
13 | staking | 2 | 0 |
Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "taking".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | trying | 2 | 163 |
2 | talking | 2 | 100 |
3 | turning | 2 | 75 |
4 | teaching | 2 | 67 |
5 | telling | 2 | 52 |
6 | staining | 2 | 37 |
7 | staring | 2 | 26 |
8 | stating | 2 | 16 |
9 | touching | 2 | 15 |
10 | stopping | 2 | 14 |
11 | timing | 2 | 11 |
12 | towering | 3 | 11 |
13 | attacking | 3 | 9 |
14 | steering | 2 | 9 |
15 | stepping | 2 | 9 |
16 | tearing | 2 | 9 |
17 | outgoing | 3 | 8 |
18 | sticking | 2 | 8 |
19 | sterling | 2 | 7 |
20 | touring | 2 | 7 |
21 | typing | 2 | 7 |
22 | attaining | 3 | 6 |
23 | stealing | 2 | 6 |
24 | stunning | 2 | 6 |
25 | tapping | 2 | 6 |
26 | tubing | 2 | 6 |
27 | steaming | 2 | 5 |
28 | tooling | 2 | 5 |
29 | tossing | 2 | 5 |
30 | stooping | 2 | 4 |
31 | storing | 2 | 4 |
32 | tiring | 2 | 4 |
33 | attaching | 3 | 3 |
34 | staging | 2 | 3 |
35 | stirling | 2 | 3 |
36 | teasing | 2 | 3 |
37 | tuning | 2 | 3 |
38 | outlying | 3 | 2 |
39 | stacking | 2 | 2 |
40 | stalking | 2 | 2 |
41 | stalling | 2 | 2 |
42 | starring | 2 | 2 |
43 | stinging | 2 | 2 |
44 | stuffing | 2 | 2 |
45 | tacking | 2 | 2 |
46 | topping | 2 | 2 |
47 | tucking | 2 | 2 |
48 | staffing | 2 | 1 |
49 | stocking | 2 | 1 |
50 | styling | 2 | 1 |
51 | tagging | 2 | 1 |
52 | taming | 2 | 1 |
53 | teaming | 2 | 1 |
54 | teeming | 2 | 1 |
55 | teething | 2 | 1 |
56 | terming | 2 | 1 |
57 | ticking | 2 | 1 |
58 | tilling | 2 | 1 |
59 | tipping | 2 | 1 |
60 | tugging | 2 | 1 |
61 | outdoing | 3 | 0 |
62 | outlawing | 3 | 0 |
63 | outweighing | 3 | 0 |
64 | stabbing | 2 | 0 |
65 | staking | 2 | 0 |
66 | stashing | 2 | 0 |
67 | staving | 2 | 0 |
68 | stehling | 2 | 0 |
69 | stelling | 2 | 0 |
70 | stemming | 2 | 0 |
71 | stitching | 2 | 0 |
72 | stoking | 2 | 0 |
73 | stoning | 2 | 0 |
74 | stowing | 2 | 0 |
75 | straying | 2 | 0 |
76 | tabbing | 2 | 0 |
77 | tailing | 2 | 0 |
78 | tanning | 2 | 0 |
79 | taping | 2 | 0 |
80 | tarring | 2 | 0 |
81 | teeling | 2 | 0 |
82 | tiding | 2 | 0 |
83 | tithing | 2 | 0 |
84 | toiling | 2 | 0 |
85 | tolling | 2 | 0 |
86 | toning | 2 | 0 |
87 | toting | 2 | 0 |
88 | touting | 2 | 0 |
89 | turing | 2 | 0 |
90 | tusing | 2 | 0 |
91 | tussing | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "taking".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | talking | 2 | 100 |
2 | waking | 2 | 11 |
3 | taxing | 2 | 9 |
4 | tracking | 2 | 3 |
5 | thanking | 2 | 3 |
6 | takings | 2 | 2 |
7 | tacking | 2 | 2 |
8 | stalking | 2 | 2 |
9 | stacking | 2 | 2 |
10 | takin' | 2 | 2 |
11 | taming | 2 | 1 |
12 | tasking | 2 | 0 |
13 | tanking | 2 | 0 |
14 | staking | 2 | 0 |
15 | taing | 2 | 0 |
16 | tweaking | 2 | 0 |
17 | tackling | 2 | 0 |
18 | retaking | 3 | 0 |
19 | taping | 2 | 0 |
20 | talkin | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "taking" in a sentence.
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "taking" in a sentence.
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "taking" in the same piece of text.
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
---|---|---|---|
1 | california | 4 | 2 |
2 | like | 1 | 2 |
3 | criticized | 3 | 2 |
4 | credit | 2 | 2 |
5 | jews | 1 | 2 |
6 | show | 1 | 2 |
7 | people | 2 | 2 |
8 | players | 2 | 2 |
Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "taking".
# | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 43
Fragments: 13
Sound Alikes: 91
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 6
Words that Precede: 4
Statistically Associated: 8
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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