Definition of takes Takes
/tejˈks/ - [teyks] -
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Wiktionary 
- takes (Noun)
Plural of take.
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| take - the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption | ||
| cinematography, filming, motion-picture photography the act of making a film | ||
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| take - take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" | ||
| give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister" | ||
| draw off, withdraw, take out, draw remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese" | ||
| repossess, take back cause someone to remember the past; "This photo takes me back to the good old days" | ||
| take in make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" | ||
| adopt, take in take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua" | ||
| take away take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" | ||
| repossess, take back cause someone to remember the past; "This photo takes me back to the good old days" | ||
| collect, take in get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" | ||
| confiscate, impound, attach, sequester, seize place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray" | ||
| sequester set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" | ||
| pocket put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" | ||
| take over, assume, accept, bear take over ownership of; of corporations and companies | ||
| snap up, snaffle, grab get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" | ||
| call back, call in, recall, withdraw return or repeat a telephone call; "I am busy right now--can you call back in an hour?"; "She left a message but the contractor never called back" | ||
| deprive, divest, strip take away | ||
| unburden take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey" | ||
| take - get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please" | ||
| get hold of | ||
| take in make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" | ||
| tackle, take on, undertake seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | ||
| lift out, scoop up, scoop, scoop out, take up take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" | ||
| bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" | ||
| gather in, take in make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" | ||
| discerp, dismember, take apart cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" | ||
| prehend, clutch, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
| seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
| take - take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" | ||
| rescue take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners" | ||
| scale size or measure according to a scale; "This model must be scaled down" | ||
| extort get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | ||
| usurp, arrogate, seize, take over, assume take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke" | ||
| retake, recapture photograph again; "Please retake that scene" | ||
| relieve provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" | ||
| steal steal a base | ||
| pillage, reave, despoil, foray, loot, ransack, rifle, plunder, strip briefly enter enemy territory | ||
| plunder, sack steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" | ||
| take - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" | ||
| read | ||
| read to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" | ||
| read to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" | ||
| construe, interpret, see make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" | ||
| misread, misinterpret interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" | ||
| take - accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" | ||
| submit | ||
| take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" | ||
| undergo pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" | ||
| test undergo a test; "She doesn't test well" | ||
| take - require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" | ||
| occupy, use up | ||
| deplete, run through, use up, eat up, exhaust, consume, eat, wipe out finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" | ||
| expend, use use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| take - make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" | ||
| accept | ||
| co-opt take or assume for one's own use; "He co-opted the criticism and embraced it" | ||
| take - buy, select; "I'll take a pound of that sausage" | ||
| purchase, buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| commercialism, mercantilism, commerce an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | ||
| draw off, withdraw, take out, draw remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese" | ||
| take - experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" | ||
| experience, receive, have, get go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" | ||
| submit, take put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" | ||
| take - ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" | ||
| incur, obtain, receive, find, get make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health" | ||
| take - be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk" | ||
| become, go, get enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" | ||
| take - head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" | ||
| make | ||
| head remove the head of; "head the fish" | ||
| take - travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark" | ||
| utilise, employ, utilize, use, apply convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust) | ||
| take - have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" | ||
| have | ||
| sleep with, sleep together, roll in the hay, make love, lie with, have sex, have it off, have it away, have intercourse, have a go at it, get laid, be intimate, do it, eff, get it on, fuck, hump, bonk, jazz, love, bed, screw, bang, make out, know have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" | ||
| take - obtain by winning; "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize" | ||
| win be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| take - carry out; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance" | ||
| act, move behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" | ||
| take - to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; "take shelter from the storm" | ||
| take - develop a habit; "He took to visiting bars" | ||
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Wiktionary
- take (Noun)
An act of taking. - take (Noun)
Something that is taken; a haul. - take (Noun)
A profit, reward, bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback. - take (Noun)
An interpretation or view; perspective. - take (Noun)
An attempt to record a scene. - take (Noun)
A catch. - take (Noun)
A facial gesture in response to an event. - take (Noun)
A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper. - take (Noun)
The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time. - take (Verb)
To grasp with the hands. - take (Verb)
To grab and move to oneself. - take (Verb)
To get into one's possession. - take (Verb)
To accept. - take (Verb)
To gain a position by force. - take (Verb)
To have sex with. - take (Verb)
To carry, particularly to a particular destination. - take (Verb)
To choose. - take (Verb)
To support or carry without failing or breaking. - take (Verb)
To endure or cope with. - take (Verb)
To not swing at a pitch. - take (Verb)
To ingest medicine, drugs, etc. - take (Verb)
To assume or interpret to be. - take (Verb)
To enroll in a class, or a course of study. - take (Verb)
To participate in, undergo, or experience. - take (Verb)
To tighten take up a belaying rope. Often used imperatively. - take (Verb)
To fight or attempt to fight somebody. - take (Verb)
To stick, persist, thrive or remain. - take (Verb)
To become. - take (Verb)
To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it. - take (Verb)
To require. - take (Verb)
To capture using a photographic camera. - take (Verb)
To last or expend an amount of time. - take (Verb)
To use. - take (Verb)
To consider as an instance or example. - take (Verb)
To deliver, give something; to entrust. - take (Verb)
To go. - take (Verb)
To habituate to or gain competency at a task. - take (Verb)
To be the player who performs a free kick, etc..
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- take (p. p.)
Taken. - take (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. - take (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. - take (v. t.)
To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. - take (v. t.)
To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. - take (v. t.)
To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat. - take (v. t.)
To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person. - take (v. t.)
To draw; to deduce; to derive. - take (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. - take (v. t.)
To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. - take (v. t.)
To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery. - take (v. t.)
To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four. - take (v. t.)
In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. - take (v. t.)
To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. - take (v. t.)
To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. - take (v. t.)
Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. - take (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. - take (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. - take (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. - take (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. - take (v. i.)
To please; to gain reception; to succeed. - take (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. - take (v. i.)
To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well. - take (n.)
That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch. - take (n.)
The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To grasp with the hands. -
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To grab and move to oneself. -
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To get into one's possession -
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To gain a position by force. -
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To carry, particularly to a particular destination. -
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To make a choice from a number of alternatives. -
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To ingest food, medicine, drugs, etc. -
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To interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression. -
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To transport toward somewhere; to take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. -
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To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to continue to exist or occur without interference; accept or undergo, often unwillingly. -
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To point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards -
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To receive, especially with a consent, with favour or with approval, something given or offered. -
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To acquire or catch (a disease, something noxious, bad condition). -
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To travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation (e.g. a bus), or a certain route (e.g. Route 1).
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tāk, v.t. to lay hold of: to get into one's possession: to catch: to capture: to captivate: to receive: to choose: to use: to allow: to understand: to agree to: to become affected with.—v.i. to catch: to have the intended effect: to gain reception, to please: to move or direct the course of: to have recourse to:—pa.t. took; pa.p. tā′ken.—n. quantity of fish taken or captured at one time.—ns. Take′-in, an imposition, fraud: that by which one is deceived; Take′-off, a burlesque representation of any one; Tā′ker; Tā′king, act of taking or gaining possession: a seizing: agitation, excitement: (Spens. sickness: (Shak.) witchery: malignant influence.—adj. captivating: alluring.—adv. Tā′kingly.—n. Tā′kingness, quality of being taking or attractive.—adj. Tā′ky, attractive.—Take advantage of, to employ to advantage: to make use of circumstances to the prejudice of; Take after, to follow in resemblance; Take air, to be disclosed or made public; Take breath, to stop in order to breathe, to be refreshed; Take care, care of (see Care); Take down, to reduce: to bring down from a higher place, to lower: to swallow: to pull down: to write down; Take for, to mistake; Take French leave (see French); Take from, to derogate or detract from; Take heed, to be careful; Take heed to, to attend to with care; Take in, to enclose, to embrace: to receive: to contract, to furl, as a sail: to comprehend: to accept as true: to cheat: (Shak.) to conquer; Take in hand, to undertake; Take into one's head, to be seized with a sudden notion; Take in vain, to use with unbecoming levity or profaneness; Take in with, to deceive by means of; Take it out of, to extort reparation from: to exhaust the strength or energy of; Take leave (see Leave); Taken in, deceived, cheated; Take notice, to observe: to show that observation is made: (with of) to remark upon; Take off, to remove: to swallow: to mimic or imitate; Take on, to take upon: to claim a character: (coll.) to grieve; Take orders, to receive ordination; Take order with (Bacon), to check; Take out, to remove from within: to deduct: (Shak.) to copy; Take part, to share; Take place, to happen: to prevail; Take root, to strike out roots, to live and grow, as a plant: to be established; Take the field, to begin military operations; Take the wall of, to pass on the side nearest the wall: to get the advantage of; Take to, to apply to: to resort to: to be fond of; Take to heart, to feel sensibly; Take up, to lift, to raise: (Shak.) to borrow money, to buy on credit, to make up a quarrel: to employ, occupy or fill: to arrest: to comprise; Take up arms, to commence to fight; Take upon, to assume; Take up with, to be pleased or contented with, to form a connection with, to fall in love with: to lodge; Take with, to be pleased with. [M. E. taken—Scand.; Ice. taka pa.t. tók, pa.p. tekinn); conn. with L. tangĕre, tetig-i, to touch, and with Eng. tack.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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The draught of fishes in a single drag of the net. Also, to take, in a military sense, to take or adopt any particular formation, as to take open order, or to take ground to the right or the left.--To take an astronomical observation, so to ascertain the position of a celestial body as to learn from it the place of the ship.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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To lay hold of; to seize. To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to capture; to make prisoner. To attack; to seize; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship. To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. To take arms, to commence war or hostilities. To take advantage of, to avail one’s self of any peculiar event or opening, whereby an army may be overcome. To take ground to the right or left, is to extend a line, or to move troops in either of those directions. To take down, is to commit to paper that which is spoken by another. To take on, an expression in familiar use among soldiers that have enlisted for a limited period, to signify an extension of service by re-enlisting. To take the field, is to encamp, to commence the operations of a campaign. To take up, to seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a deserter. To take up quarters, to occupy locally; to go into cantonments, barracks, etc.; to become stationary for more or less time. To take up the gauntlet, is to accept a challenge.
