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Taking vs Ontake - What's the difference?

taking | ontake |

As nouns the difference between taking and ontake

is that taking is the act by which something is taken while ontake is a taking on; that which is taken on; acquisition.

As verbs the difference between taking and ontake

is that taking is while ontake is to take on; undertake; assume.

As an adjective taking

is alluring; attractive.

taking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • alluring; attractive.
  • * Fuller
    • subtile in making his temptations most taking
  • (obsolete) infectious; contagious
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

  • The act by which something is taken.
  • * 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.
  • (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  • (uncountable) An apprehension.
  • (countable) That which has been gained.
    • Count the shop's takings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Derived terms

    * for the taking

    See also

    * takings

    Statistics

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    ontake

    English

    Verb

  • To take on; undertake; assume.
  • *1862 , William Anderson, The Scottish nation :
    • In 1413 he entered into a bond of manrent at Dundee, with the earl of Crawford, that he, the said Sir Patrick," is becumyn man of special retinue till the said earl, for the term of his life, nane ontaken but amitie and allegiance till our lord the king, [...]
  • To undertake a debt.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A taking on; that which is taken on; acquisition.
  • *1975 , The Australian library journal: Volume 24:
    • [...] as only about 4 per cent of library ontake would be affected.
  • *1982 , Glückauf: Volume 118, Issues 19-24:
    • In very faulted seam zones unduly high power ontakes of the plough drives showed that the set values were already too high.
  • *1988 , R. P. Whittington, Database systems engineering :
    • Ontake of existing data This is a step that can easily be underestimated both in its complexity and in the resources required.
  • *2006 , Don Nava, Fit after 40: 3 keys to looking good and feeling great - Page 74 :
    • Reevaluate your “ontake'” factors. In addition to intake, you may also need to address factors related to what I call “' ontake .”

    Derived terms

    * (l)