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take

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What does take mean?

verb

  1. To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  2. To seize or capture.
  3. To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
More meanings (99)

verb

  1. To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
  2. To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
  3. To exact.
  4. To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
  5. To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
  6. To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
  7. To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
  8. To receive into some relationship.
  9. To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
  10. To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
  11. To remove.
  12. To remove or end by death; to kill.
  13. To subtract.
  14. To have sex with.
  15. To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  16. To grasp or grip.
  17. To select or choose; to pick.
  18. To adopt (select) as one's own.
  19. To apply or assign a character option.
  20. To carry or lead (something or someone).
  21. To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
  22. To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
  23. To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
  24. To escort or conduct (a person).
  25. To go.
  26. To use as a means of transportation.
  27. To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  28. To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
  29. To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
  30. To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
  31. To experience or feel.
  32. To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
  33. To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
  34. To participate in.
  35. To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  36. To regard in a specified way.
  37. To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  38. To understand (especially in a specified way).
  39. To believe, to accept the statements of.
  40. To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  41. To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  42. To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  43. To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
  44. To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  45. To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  46. To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
  47. To let in (water).
  48. To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
  49. To proceed to fill.
  50. To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
  51. To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
  52. To avail oneself of; to exploit.
  53. To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
  54. To assume (a form).
  55. To perform (a role).
  56. To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
  57. To bind oneself by.
  58. To go into, through, or along.
  59. To go or move into.
  60. To have and use one's recourse to.
  61. To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  62. To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  63. To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  64. To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  65. To apply oneself to the study of.
  66. To deal with.
  67. To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  68. To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
  69. To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
  70. To accept (zero or more arguments).
  71. (informal) To buy.
  72. To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  73. To engage, take hold or have effect.
  74. To look good enough to keep.
  75. To adhere or be absorbed properly.
  76. To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
  77. To catch; to engage.
  78. To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  79. An intensifier.
  80. Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
  81. (dated) To consume (food or drink).
  82. (dated) To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.).
  83. (dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
  84. (dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  85. (obsolete) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
  86. (obsolete, slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
  87. (archaic) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  88. (obsolete, rare) To portray in a painting.

noun

  1. An act of taking.
  2. Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
  3. The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
  4. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
  5. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  6. A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
  7. A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  8. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
  9. An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  10. A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  11. The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
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And they have sought to take away the life of my father, insomuch that they have driven him out of the land.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
It is to little purpose to say, that a neglect or omission of this kind would not be likely to take place.
Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James MadisonThe Federalist PapersProject Gutenberg ebook #18
More book examples (3)
I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear.
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveProject Gutenberg ebook #23
Despite government efforts at reform and large-scale foreign assistance, the economy still is unable to take advantage of its sizable natural resources.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1991 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #25
“Nothing injured. I’ll put ’em all up again as I found ’em. Going to take some ladies down in the car to-morrow.”
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44