take > define
noun
- The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.
- usage: "the average return was about 5"
- The act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption.
verb
- Carry out.
- usage: "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance"
- Require (time or space. )
- usage: "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
- Take somebody somewhere.
- usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
- Get into one's hands, take physically.
- usage: "Take a cookie"; "Can you take this bag, please"
- synonyms: get hold of
- Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect.
- usage: "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
- Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.
- usage: "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message"; "You can't take credit for this"
- synonyms: read
- Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.
- usage: "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
- Take into one's possession.
- usage: "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks"
- Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route.
- usage: "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark"
- Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.
- usage: "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
- Receive willingly something given or offered.
- usage: "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house"; "Please accept my present"
- Assume, as of positions or roles.
- usage: "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
- Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes.
- usage: "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
- Require as useful, just, or proper.
- usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- Experience or feel or submit to.
- usage: "Take a test"; "Take the plunge"
- Make a film or photograph of something.
- usage: "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
- Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.
- usage: "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
- Serve oneself to, or consume regularly.
- usage: "Have another bowl of chicken soup"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
- usage: "We took a pay cut"
- synonyms: submit
- Make use of or accept for some purpose.
- usage: "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
- synonyms: accept
- Take by force.
- usage: "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill"
- Occupy or take on.
- usage: "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose"
- Admit into a group or community.
- usage: "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- Ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial.
- usage: "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors"
- Be a student of a certain subject.
- usage: "She is reading for the bar exam"
- Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.
- usage: "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
- Head into a specified direction.
- usage: "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains"
- synonyms: make
- Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.
- usage: "Please don't aim at your little brother"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
- Be seized or affected in a specified way.
- usage: "take sick"; "be taken drunk"
- Have with oneself; have on one's person.
- usage: "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
- Engage for service under a term of contract.
- usage: "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome"
- Receive or obtain regularly.
- usage: "We take the Times every day"
- synonyms: subscribe, subscribe to
- Buy, select.
- usage: "I'll take a pound of that sausage"
- To get into a position of having, e. G., safety, comfort.
- usage: "take shelter from the storm"
- Have sex with; archaic use.
- usage: "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable"
- synonyms: have
- Lay claim to; as of an idea.
- usage: "She took credit for the whole idea"
- synonyms: claim
- Be designed to hold or take.
- usage: "This surface will not take the dye"
- synonyms: accept
- Be capable of holding or containing.
- usage: "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"
- Develop a habit.
- usage: "He took to visiting bars"
- Proceed along in a vehicle.
- usage: "We drive the turnpike to work"
- synonyms: drive
- Obtain by winning.
- usage: "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize"
- Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.
- usage: "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head.
- (v.t.) To make a picture, photograph or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene.
- (v.t.) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
- (v.i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
- (v.t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
- (v.t.) To draw; to deduce; to derive.
- (v.t.) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
- (v.t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
- (v.i.) To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
- (p.p.) Taken.
- (v.t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
- (v.t.) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
- (v.t.) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
- (v.t.) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
- (v.t.) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
- (n.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
- (v.i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
- (v.t.) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
- (v.t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
- (v.t.) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
- (v.t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
- (v.t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
- (v.t.) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
- (v.i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
- (v.t.) In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
- (n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
- (v.t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune or the like.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(1) To agree to buy. A dealer or customer who agrees to buy at another dealer's offered price is said to' Take' the offer. (2) Euro bankers speak of taking deposits rather than buying money.