take > 44 senses| NOUN | 1 | take, return, issue, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff | The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property |
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| 2 | take | The act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption |
| VERB | 1 | take | Carry out |
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| 2 | take, occupy, use up | Require (time or space) |
| 3 | take, lead, direct, conduct, guide | Take somebody somewhere |
| 4 | take, get hold of | Get into one's hands, take physically |
| 5 | take, assume, acquire, adopt, take on | Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect |
| 6 | take, read | Interpret something in a certain way |
| 7 | take, bring, convey | Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere |
| 8 | take | Take into one's possession |
| 9 | take, necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, involve, call for, demand | Require as useful, just, or proper |
| 10 | take, choose, select, pick out | Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives |
| 11 | take | Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route |
| 12 | take, accept, have | Receive willingly something given or offered |
| 13 | take, fill | Assume, as of positions or roles |
| 14 | take, consider, deal, look at | Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes |
| 15 | take | Experience or feel or submit to |
| 16 | take, film, shoot | Make a film or photograph of something |
| 17 | take, remove, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| 18 | take, consume, ingest, take in, have | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
| 19 | take, undergo, submit | Accept or undergo, often unwillingly |
| 20 | take, accept | Make use of or accept for some purpose |
| 21 | take | Take by force |
| 22 | take, assume, strike, take up | Occupy or take on |
| 23 | take, accept, admit, take on | Admit into a group or community |
| 24 | take | ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial |
| 25 | take, learn, study, read | Be a student of a certain subject |
| 26 | take, claim, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
| 27 | take, make | Head into a specified direction |
| 28 | take, aim, train, take aim, direct | Aim or direct at |
| 29 | take | Be seized or affected in a specified way |
| 30 | take, carry, pack | Have with oneself |
| 31 | take, lease, rent, hire, charter, engage | Engage for service under a term of contract |
| 32 | take, subscribe, subscribe to | Receive or obtain by regular payment |
| 33 | take | Buy, select |
| 34 | take | To get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort |
| 35 | take, have | Have sex with |
| 36 | take, claim | Lay claim to |
| 37 | take, accept | Be designed to hold or take |
| 38 | take, contain, hold | Be capable of holding or containing |
| 39 | take | Develop a habit |
| 40 | take, drive | Proceed along in a vehicle |
| 41 | take | Obtain by winning |
| 42 | take, contract, get | Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness |
take > verb 10, cognition| Meaning | Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They take him to write the letter |
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| Examples | "Take any one of these cards" |
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| Synonyms | choose, select, pick out |
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| Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine |
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| Narrower | empanel, impanel, panel; anoint; field; sieve, sift; draw; dial; plump, go; pick; elect; excerpt, extract, take out; cull out, winnow; cream off, skim off; sieve out, pick over; assign, specify, set apart; single out; think of; specify, set, determine, fix, limit; adopt, follow, espouse; screen, screen out, sieve, sort; vote in; elect; nominate, propose; vote; side, go with |
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| Entailed by | buy, purchase |
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take > verb 17, change| Meaning | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
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| Model | They want to take the doors |
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| Examples | "take the gun from your pocket" |
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| Synonyms | remove, take away, withdraw |
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| See also | take off |
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| Narrower | epilate, depilate; harvest; tip; stem; extirpate; enucleate; exenterate; enucleate; decorticate; bail; strip, undress, divest, disinvest; ablate; clean, pick; clean; winnow; unbrace; pick; clear, clear up; muck; lift; lift; lift; tear away, tear off; take off; take away, take out; pit, stone; seed; unhinge; shuck; hull; crumb; chip away, chip away at; burl; knock out; scavenge, clean; hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise; degas; husk, shell; bur, burr; clear off, clear away; flick; strip, dismantle; strip; clear; defang; bone, debone; disembowel, eviscerate, draw; shell; shuck; tusk, detusk; dehorn; scalp; weed; condense; bail out, bale out; leach, strip; decalcify; detoxify, detoxicate; de-ionate; de-iodinate; decarbonize, decarbonise, decarburize, decarburise, decoke; delouse; ream; brush; wash, wash out, wash off, wash away; desorb; pull; demineralize, demineralise; eliminate; expectorate, clear out, drive out; defuse; dredge; wear away, wear off; amputate, cut off; resect, eviscerate; skim, skim off, cream off, cream; strip; strip; scale, descale; circumcise; undock; dig, delve, cut into, turn over; excavate, dig, hollow; scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up; extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out; take out; unstring; string; wipe off, wipe away; take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry off; unveil; unpack, take out; unburden, disburden; empty; discharge; unsaddle, offsaddle; shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop; dislodge, free; clean; aspirate, draw out, suck out; delete, cancel; ladle, lade, laden; spoon; gut; head; draw off, draw away, pull off; clean, strip; draw, take out; draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out; leach; draw; withdraw, draw, take out, draw off |
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| Entailed by | dust; dig, dig out |
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take > verb 18, consumption| Meaning | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | They take the cake with sugar |
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| Examples | "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
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| Synonyms | consume, ingest, take in, have |
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| Contrary | abstain, refrain, desist |
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| See also | take up |
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| Narrower | hit; cannibalize, cannibalise; use, habituate; eat; eat; drink, imbibe; drink, booze, fuddle; partake, touch; feed, eat; satiate, sate, replete, fill; sample, try, try out, taste; take in, sop up, suck in, take up; smoke; drug, do drugs; swallow, get down; sup |
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| Entailed by | board; digest; quench, slake, allay, assuage |
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