take

Definitions

• (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
• (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• (transitive) To remove.
• (transitive) To have sex with.
• (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• (transitive) To consume.
• (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• (transitive) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
• (transitive) To let in (water).
• (transitive) To require.
• (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
• (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• (transitive) To move into.
• (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
• (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• (transitive) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• (transitive) To apply oneself to the study of.
• (transitive) To deal with.
• (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• (transitive) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
• (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
• (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• (intransitive) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• (intransitive)
• (transitive) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
• (transitive) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.