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taking(2) (iou) and Saccharomycetaceae (medicine)


taking(2) (iou)



taking noun. ME.
[from TAKE verb + -ING1.]
The action or process of TAKE verb; an instance of this. ME.
G. Boycott There had been a big score for the taking. Daily Telegraph The taking of aspirin by pregnant women.
b. A seizure or sudden attack of illness or pain (long obsolete exc. dial.). Formerly also, enchantment, esp. of a malign Nature; malignant influence. M16.
That which is taken; spec. (a) prey, a catch, fish etc. caught at one time; (b) in pl., proceeds, business receipts or earnings; (c) (Printing, obsolete exc. Hist.) a portion of copy given to a compositor for setting at one time, a take. ME.
B. Rubens Half a day's takings in the shop..would amount to something like fifteen pounds.
a. Condition, situation, plight. Only in in a taking, in taking, at a taking, at taking, freq. with specifying word. obsolete exc. Scot. E16.
b. spec. A disturbed or agitated state of mind. Freq. in in a taking. arch. L16.
Ellis Peters They must be in a taking at all these changes we're seeing.

Saccharomycetaceae (medicine)


Saccharomycetaceae


The family of yeasts; that group of fungi comprising the ascomycetes which possess a predominantly unicellular thallus, reproduce asexually by budding, transverse division, or both, and produce ascospores in an ascus, originating from a zygote or pathogenetically from a single somatic cell. The term yeastlike fungus is often applied to fungi that are not known to form ascospores, but otherwise possess the characteristics of yeasts; such forms are properly placed with the Fungi Imperfecti unless methods of sexual reproduction are known; e.g., Cryptococcus neoformans.