Take

Word TAKE
Character 4
Hyphenation take
Pronunciations /teɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Take"

What do we mean by take?

To get into one's hands, control, or possession, especially. intransitive verb

To grasp or grip. intransitive verb

To capture physically; seize. intransitive verb

To seize with authority or legal right. intransitive verb

To get possession of (fish or game, for example) by capturing or killing. intransitive verb

To catch or receive (a ball or puck). intransitive verb

To acquire in a game or competition; win. intransitive verb

To defeat. intransitive verb

To engage in sex with. intransitive verb

To remove or cause to be absent, especially. intransitive verb

To remove with the hands or an instrument. intransitive verb

To cause to die; kill or destroy. intransitive verb

To subtract. intransitive verb

To exact. intransitive verb

To affect in a strong or sudden manner as if by capturing, as. intransitive verb

To deal a blow to; strike or hit. intransitive verb

To delight or captivate. intransitive verb

To catch or affect with a particular action. intransitive verb

To carry in one's possession. intransitive verb

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.

The word "take" in example sentences

The failure of the US to take seriously what’s going on in Darfur is another face of racism – let those folks “take care of their own. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many of them applied to me my parents threaten to take my PC out of my room..take the Internet Modem etc..lol..yeah I love WoW and its Bloody addictive, But yeah still have a social life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On finding he has fairly grinned himself into your good graces, he formally prepares to take leave, endeavouring at the same time to _take_ likewise what you are probably less willing to part withal -- namely, a portion of your cash. ❋ Various (N/A)

QUOTATION: “There, take, ” says Justice, “take ye each a shell; ❋ Unknown (1919)

You write that I take your feeling for me “too lightly” and that I “take the whole affair too lightly. ❋ Unknown (1918)

I like you, take Tromp— (confound it!) —take Vautrin’s word for it. ❋ Unknown (1917)

There was no doubt that Snowball wanted to take a hand in the sport -- or perhaps it would be better to say _take a horn_. ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)

If you take a photograph, _take_ a photograph, and don't try to do a pastoral play at the same time. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

I didn't tell him then I loved him, but now I take this chance, I _take it_ GLADLY before you! ❋ Clyde Fitch (1887)

"Aren't you going to take advantage of me, man -- aren't you going to _take_ it?" ❋ Henry James (1879)

"Some people," said the President, looking after him, "said they could not take very well to my proclamation; but now, I am happy to say, I have _something that everybody can take_." ❋ Unknown (1878)

To secure them to our side, in the views which we take, we must show a disposition to _take_ them to it by an affectionate sympathy. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

He it is, who has been thrust, unwillingly perhaps, into sufficient light to show him his moral corruption, and the character of the sin he is daily committing; he it is, whose avarice and idleness induces to hold fast that which is to him a source of wealth, -- and by no means to allow the same light to fall in upon the darkened intellect of his slave property, lest his riches "take to themselves wings;" or, as may be more properly said, _take to themselves legs and run away_. ❋ Austin Steward (N/A)

9582“There, take, ” says Justice, “take ye each a shell; ❋ Unknown (1919)

4“There, take, ” says Justice, “take ye each a shell; ❋ Unknown (1919)

For Heaven's sake, Mr. Echo, help! bear his head up -- take hold of his feet, Mr. Blackmantle, and I'll go before, and ring at Dr. Tuckwell's bell, _take notice_. " ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)

III. ii.9 (214,3) take in some virtue] To _take in_ a town, is to ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

IV. ii.121 (252,3) take us in] To _take in_, was the phrase in use for to ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

III. iii.47 (431,8) His present reconciliation take] [W: make] To _take his reconciliation_, may be to accept the submission which he makes in order to be reconciled. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Like Ani Difranco, we start our own record label, Righteous Babe Records, and sell our music out of the trunk of our car until our records and our label take off. ❋ Mary Pauline Lowry (2011)

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