take /tāk/

1. To lay hold of
2. To get into one's possession
3. To seize, catch, capture
4. To captivate
5. To receive or come to have willingly or by an act of one's own
6. To pay for, buy or rent
7. To appropriate
8. To assume, adopt
9. To consider as an example
10. To accept
11. To receive
12. To admit
13. To submerge (Scot)
14. To have normally assigned to one
15. To find out, come upon, surprise, detect
16. To swallow or inhale
17. To eat or drink, often habitually
18. To apply to oneself
19. To obtain
20. To engage, secure
21. To seek and receive
22. To have recourse to
23. To make use of
24. To deal with or react to in a specified way
25. To teach (a subject or class)
26. To attend a course in
27. To undertake (a course) or attend (a regular class) in some subject
28. To visit
29. To call for, necessitate, use up
30. To remove
31. To cause to go
32. To subtract
33. To convey
34. To carry with one
35. To escort
36. To detract
37. To derive
38. To understand
39. To apprehend
40. (with it) to assume, suppose
41. To mistake
42. To conceive or think of
43. To accept as true
44. To tolerate or endure
45. To ascertain
46. To observe or measure
47. To ascertain something from
48. To execute, perform
49. To set down
50. To portray
51. To photograph
52. To charge oneself with
53. To declare solemnly
54. To strike
55. To come upon and affect
56. To bewitch or charm
57. To blight
58. To put an end to (someone's, or one's own, life)
59. To cheat, swindle or deceive (informal)
60. To deliver, give (obsolete)
61. To have sexual intercourse with (archaic)
62. To betake

1. To have the intended effect
2. To be effective, to work
3. (of plants, esp grafted buds) to begin to grow shoots (cf strike)
4. To please the public
5. To betake oneself, begin
6. (of a fish) to bite
7. To make a capture or acquisition
8. To be capable of being taken
9. To become, fall, eg ill (informal)
10. To freeze (N American)
11. To cast a spell (Shakespeare)

1. An act of taking, or of catching (eg the ball in rugby, etc)
2. A person's opinion of or perspective on a particular situation, concept, etc
3. A capture
4. Quantity taken on one occasion
5. The amount of money taken, eg from a business enterprise, admission charges, etc
6. The amount of film (eg one scene) photographed, music recorded, etc at any one time
7. The amount of copy set up by a printer at one time
8. A sign on the body (eg a rash) that a vaccine has been successful
9. A successful tissue graft

takeˈable or tāˈkable adjective

tāˈken adjective (with with; informal)

Impressed or attracted by

tāˈker noun

tāˈking noun

1. The action of the verb in any sense
2. (usu in pl) that which is taken, receipts
3. Plight (Spenser)
4. Bewitchment, malignant influence (Shakespeare)
5. Agitation, perplexity (informal)

1. Captivating
2. Alluring
3. Infectious, catching

tāˈkingly adverb

tāˈkingness noun

tāˈky adjective (old informal)

Attractive

takeˈaway adjective

1. (of cooked food) sold for consumption away from the place of sale
2. (of a restaurant) selling such food

1. Such a restaurant
2. A takeaway meal

takeˈ-down noun

A humiliation

adjective

Capable of being disassembled quickly

take-home pay noun

Pay after deduction of tax, etc

takeˈ-in noun

A deception, fraud or disappointment of hopes

takeˈ-leave noun

Leave-taking

takeˈ-off noun

1. A burlesque mimicking
2. The place, act or mode of leaving the ground for a jump, dive or flight (also figurative)
3. A drawback

take-off rocket noun (aeronautics)

A rocket used to assist the acceleration of an aircraft at take-off

takeˈout adjective (N American)

Takeaway

adjective and noun (bridge)

(of or designating) a conventional bid asking one's partner to bid a different suit

takeˈover noun

The acquirement of control of a business by purchase of a majority of its shares (also adjective)

takeˈ-up noun

The fact, or an instance, of taking up (ie using or accepting, or picking up)

take-up rate noun

The number of people, as a percentage of the total number eligible, who claim a benefit to which they are entitled or who accept an offer

tāking-offˈ noun

Removal, assassination

for the taking

Readily available to be taken (advantage of)

have what it takes

To possess the requisite skills, qualities, etc

on the take

Engaged in small-scale dishonest making of profit

take after

To resemble (eg a parent) in appearance or characteristics

take against

1. To take a dislike to
2. To oppose

take apart

1. To separate into component parts
2. To defeat convincingly (informal)
3. To criticize or scold severely (slang)

take away

1. To subtract
2. To carry somewhere else, remove
3. To detract (from)

take back

1. To retract, withdraw
2. To carry back (mentally) in time
3. To return to an original position
4. To regain possession of
5. To move (text) to the previous line (printing)

take down

1. To go above in class
2. To demolish, pull down or dismantle
3. To take to pieces
4. To report or write down to dictation
5. (of a man) to escort (a lady) to the dining room
6. (also, more usu, take down a peg) to humiliate to some degree
7. To reduce
8. To lower

take effect

1. To come off, succeed
2. To come into force

take five (or ten) (informal)

To take a short break of five (or ten) minutes

take for

To suppose to be, esp wrongly

take fright see under fright

take heed

1. To be careful
2. To pay attention

take in

1. To enclose
2. To comprise
3. To annex
4. To grasp, realize or understand
5. To accept as true
6. To cheat
7. To subscribe for, buy regularly
8. To receive into one's home, eg as a guest or lodger
9. To accept (work, eg washing) for doing in one's own home for payment
10. To tighten, contract, make smaller
11. To furl
12. To admit
13. To subdue
14. To visit (a place) or go to (a show, etc) esp as part of an itinerary or plan (esp US)
15. (of a man) to conduct (a lady) to the dining room (historical)

take in hand

1. To undertake
2. To undertake to reform, help or guide (someone)

take into one's head

To be seized with a notion

take in vain

To use (eg God's name) with unsuitable levity

take it

1. To assume
2. To endure punishment or bad luck without giving way or collapsing under the strain (informal)

take it from me

You can believe me, believe me when I say

take it from there

To deal with a situation appropriately, at whatever point it falls to one to do so

take it or leave it

To accept something with all its disadvantages, or else do without it

take it out of

1. To exhaust the strength or energy of
2. To exact the utmost from

take it out on

1. To make (an innocent person or object) suffer for one's anger or frustration
2. To vent one's bad temper, anger, etc on

take me with you (Shakespeare)

Let me understand what you mean

take notice

1. To observe
2. To show that observation is made
3. (with of) to remark upon

take off

1. To remove, detach
2. To mimic
3. To leave the ground for a jump or flight
4. To begin a rapid improvement, expansion, or surge in popularity
5. To depart or set out (informal)
6. To swallow

take on

1. To receive aboard
2. To agree to do, to undertake
3. To assume or acquire
4. To take into employment
5. To be very upset or distraught (informal)
6. To accept a challenge from (esp a stronger opponent)
7. (of ideas, etc) to gain acceptance

take out

1. To remove from within
2. To extract
3. To go out with, escort
4. To obtain (eg a licence) on application
5. To receive an equivalent for
6. To copy (Shakespeare)
7. To kill, destroy or defeat (slang)
8. To bid a different suit from (one's partner) (bridge)

take over

1. To receive by transfer
2. To convey across
3. To assume control of
4. To move (text) to the following line (printing)

take someone out of himself or herself

To make someone forget his or her problems or worries

take someone up on

1. To accept someone's offer or challenge with respect to
2. To challenge someone over (a statement, point, etc)

take to

1. To make for, take oneself off to
2. To adapt oneself to
3. To become fond of, to begin to do regularly as a habit

take to pieces

To separate into component parts

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• shebang
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• Shebat
• shebeen
• shebeened
• shebeener
• shebeeners
• shebeening
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• shebeens
• Shechinah
• shechita
• shechitah
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• she'd
• shed
• shedded
• shedder
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• shedding
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