take
Meanings
Verb
- To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To remove.
- To have sex with.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To grasp or grip.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To consume.
- To experience, undergo, or endure.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To let in (water).
- To require.
- To proceed to fill.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To assume or perform (a form or role).
- To bind oneself by.
- To move into.
- To go into, through, or along.
- To have and use one's recourse to.
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To accept as an input to a relation.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To engage, take hold or have effect.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
- To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
- To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
Noun
- The or an act of taking.
- Something that is taken; a haul.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
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Origin
- , from Old English niman. Cognate with Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka, Norwegian Bokmål ta, Swedish ta, Danish tage, Middle Dutch taken, Dutch taken, Middle Low German tacken. Compare tackle. Unrelated to Lithuanian tekti ("to receive, be granted").
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