take
To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
She took the policeman’s helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
We take, take, take until we can't take anymore. Maybe it's because our inner nature is not primarily one of giving, but of taking. Even these things we take that should balance our lives and give us rest do not. We make work out of them. We do them aggressively; always in control. Take.
To seize or capture.
The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way.
The front line, ours and the Fascists', lay in positions of immense natural strength, which as a rule could only be approached from one side. Provided a few trenches have been dug, such places cannot be taken by infantry, except in overwhelming numbers.
To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
The horses appear to thrive well, yet they are small sized, and have lost so much strength, that they are unfit to be used in taking wild cattle with the lazo.
(cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
To exact.
"Load away now, and take thy revenge, my fine fellow," said Samoa to himself. But not yet.
To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
To accept and follow (advice etc.).
To receive into some relationship.
(law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
To remove.
Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door !" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
To remove or end by death; to kill.
To subtract.
To have sex with.
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
"I'll stop 'em'" cried Quilp, diving into the little counting-house and returning with a thick stick, "I'll stop 'em. Now my boys fight away. I'll fight you both, I'll take both of you, both together, both together!"
To grasp or grip.
She sat half upright, supported on Henrietta's shoulder; and, taking her father's hand, she clasped it with her husband's.
To select or choose; to pick.
To adopt (select) as one's own.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
(especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
(of a path, road etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
To escort or conduct (a person).
And fain would take thee with me, in the Dell / Of Peace and mild Equality to dwell, / Where Toil shall call the charmer Health his Bride, / And Laughter tickle Plenty's ribless side!
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
'You had better wait here,' said the wizard to the dwarves; 'and when I call or whistle begin to come after me — you will see the way I go — but only in pairs, mind, about five minutes between each pair of you. Bombur is fattest and will do for two, he had better come alone and last. Come on Mr. Baggins! There is a gate somewhere round this way.' And with that he went off along the hedge taking the frightened hobbit with him.
(reflexive) To go.
To use as a means of transportation.
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
Frankly, he tells me, he's really disappointed in my attitude. He hopes ah'm not taking drugs, scrutinising my face as if he can tell.
To consume (food or drink).
To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was a year ago just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.
He was conscious that other officers tried to avoid eating at the same time, and everyone was gready relieved when he stopped coming there altogether and began taking his meals in his trailer.
To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
To experience or feel.
To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
To participate in.
To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
To regard in a specified way.
Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.
To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
To understand (especially in a specified way).
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.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features,—a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty,—which took my fancy more than all the out-shining loveliness of her companions.
(of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish etc.).
(ship) To let in (water).
To require.
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
It took an effort to restrain himself, and in a level voice to reassure earnest young Mark in his David Ogilvy-clone outfit that even the most red-faced colonels in England were unlikely to be upset by his banal formulation.
To proceed to fill.
To fill, require, or use up (time or space).
To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
"Barbara, what I have to confess will amaze and grieve you," began Lucinda, with grave tenderness. "But it is best for your happiness, for the future that I see can be yours. And surely best for all of us Huetts. It has taken me years—years to come to this decision—to break one aspect of our happy home life here for a possible fuller and better one."
To avail oneself of; to exploit.
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
We had some very agreeable Conversations upon this Subject; and once he told me, with a kind of more than ordinary Concern upon his Thoughts, that he was greatly beholden to me for taking this hazardous and diffiult[sic] Journey; for that I had kept him Honest; […]
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To assume (a form).
To perform (a role).
To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office etc.).
To bind oneself by.
To go into, through, or along.
Thes. This way the Stag tooke.
After getting out of Beloved Ali's cab he'd picked up a copy of the News and the Post, then had taken an erratic route home, walking fast, as if trying to escape something....Ellen DeGeneres, posters proclaimed, was coming soon to the Beacon Theatre.
To go or move into.
To have and use one's recourse to.
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
He first took my Altitude by a Quadrant, and then with Rule and Compasses, described the Dimensions and Out-lines of my whole Body, all which he enter'd upon Paper, and in six days brought my Clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a Figure in the Calculation.
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
The days when he was plain George Pyke, humble clerk in a solicitor’s office, and used to thrill at the soft voice of Lucy Maynard as she took the order for his frugal lunch at the Holborn Viaduct Cabin, had long since faded from his memory.
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
(dated) To make a picture, photograph etc. of (a person, scene etc.).
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
(now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
To deal with.
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
(baseball) 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.
(grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form etc.).
(mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
(Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
(of ink, dye etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
(of a plant etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
(of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
(possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
(possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
(dialectal, proscribed) (An intensifier.)
(obsolete) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
(slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
(archaic) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
(obsolete, rare) To portray in a painting.
The or an act of taking.
Something that is taken; a haul.
Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
(film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
(music) 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.
(medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
(rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
(printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
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