take

Plural: takes

Noun

the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
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.
Something that is taken; a haul.
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.
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.

Verb

Verb Forms: took, taken, taking, takes

To gain possession of; to grasp or receive.
carry out
- "take action"
- "take steps"
- "take vengeance"
require (time or space)
take somebody somewhere
- "can you take me to the main entrance?"
get into one's hands, take physically
- "Take a cookie!"
- "Can you take this bag, please"
take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- "How should I take this message?"
- "You can't take credit for this!"
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- "Take these letters to the boss"
take into one's possession
- "I'll take three salmon steaks"
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"
pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- "Take any one of these cards"
receive willingly something given or offered
assume, as of positions or roles
take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- "Take the case of China"
require as useful, just, or proper
- "It takes nerve to do what she did"
experience or feel or submit to
- "Take a test"
- "Take the plunge"
make a film or photograph of something
- "take a scene"
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- "take the gun from your pocket"
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
accept or undergo, often unwillingly
make use of or accept for some purpose
- "take a risk"
- "take an opportunity"
take by force
occupy or take on
admit into a group or community
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"
be a student of a certain subject
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
head into a specified direction
point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
be seized or affected in a specified way
- "take sick"
- "be taken drunk"
have with oneself; have on one's person
- "She always takes an umbrella"
engage for service under a term of contract
- "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
receive or obtain regularly
- "We take the Times every day"
buy, select
- "I'll take a pound of that sausage"
to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- "take shelter from the storm"
have sex with; archaic use
- "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable"
lay claim to; as of an idea
be designed to hold or take
- "This surface will not take the dye"
be capable of holding or containing
- "This box won't take all the items"
develop a habit
proceed along in a vehicle
obtain by winning
- "Winner takes all"
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To seize or capture.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To exact.
To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
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, especially something which was given).
To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive into some relationship.
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
To remove.
To remove.
To remove or end by death; to kill.
To remove.
To subtract.
To have sex with.
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
To grasp or grip.
To select or choose; to pick.
To select or choose; to pick.
To adopt (select) as one's own.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To escort or conduct (a person).
To carry or lead (something or someone).
To go.
To use as a means of transportation.
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
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.
To consume (food or drink).
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.
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.
To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
To let in (water).
To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
To proceed to fill.
To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
To avail oneself of; to exploit.
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To assume (a form).
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To perform (a role).
To assume or perform (a form or role).
To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
To bind oneself by.
To go into, through, or along.
To go into, through, or along.
To go or move into.
To have and use one's recourse to.
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.).
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
To apply oneself to the study of.
To deal with.
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
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.
To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
To accept as an input to a relation.
To accept (zero or more arguments).
To buy.
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To adhere or be absorbed properly.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To catch; to engage.
To engage, take hold or have effect.
To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
An intensifier.
To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
To visit; to include in a course of travel.
To portray in a painting.
Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.

Examples

"As I Lay Dying" takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey"
a god taking the likeness of a bird
a new take on a traditional dish
Act seven, scene three, take two.
After a bloody battle, they were able to take the city.
Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.
Aren't you supposed to take your math final today?
As a child, she took ballet.
Billy took her pencil.
Boiling pasta with a bit of the sauce in the water will help the sauce "take."
Cancer took her life.
cloth that takes dye well
Could you take a picture of us?
Despite my misgivings, I decided to take a meeting with the Russian lawyer.
did a double take and then a triple take
Do you take me for a fool?
Do you take me to be stupid?
Do you take plastic?
Don't take my comments as an insult.
Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
Finishing this on schedule will take a lot of overtime.
go down two blocks and take the next left
He had to take it apart to fix it.
He hoped to TAKE advantage of the open triple-word score in Words With Friends.
He took a full-page ad in the Times.
He took a mental inventory of his supplies.
He took a seat in the front row.
He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work.
He took her hand in his.
He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.
He took his life last night.
He took me a blow on the head.
He took that opportunity to leave France.
He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
He took the curve / corner too fast.
He took the news badly.
he took the oath of office last night
He wants half of the take if he helps with the job.
He was often taken to be a man of means.
He'll probably take this one.
He's 96 but he still takes the stairs.
Her career took a hit.
His collection takes a lot of space.
Hunting that whale takes most of his free time.
I can take the noise, but I can't take the smell.
I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.
I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't take.
I take aspirin every day to thin my blood.
I take offence at that.
I took a plane.
I took him down to London.
I took him for a ride
I took him to be a person of honor.
I used to take The Sunday Times.
I'll take that plate off the table.
I'll take the blue plates.
I'll take the plate with me.
I'll take two sugars in my coffee, please.
I'm not sure what moral to take from that story.
I've had a lot of problems recently: take last Monday, for example. My car broke down on the way to work. Then […] etc.
if she took my meaning
If you're in an abusive relationship, don't just sit and take it; you can get help.
It takes a while to get used to the smell.
It's a take.
Looking at him as he came into the room, I took him for his father.
Looks like it's gonna take a taller person to get that down.
My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives.
Next semester, I plan to take math, physics, literature, and art history.
not all grafts take
Pirès ran in to take the kick.
She made the decision to take chemotherapy.
She takes pride in her work.
She took a condo at the beach for the summer.
She took a vacation to France but spent the whole time feeling miserable that her husband couldn't be there with her.
She took a video of their encounter.
She took careful notes.
She took down her opponent in two minutes.
She took her sword with her everywhere she went.
She took his side in every argument.
She took sick with the flu.
She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.
She took the blame, in the public's eyes, although the debacle was more her husband's fault than her own.
She took the steps two or three at a time.
She wouldn't take any money for her help.
Stone Street took us right past the store.
take a census
take a joke
take a shower
take a stand on the important issues
take a ticket
take a toll
take a trip
take a walk
take a wife
take action/steps/measures to fight drug abuse
take aim
take cover/shelter/refuge
take her pulse / temperature / blood pressure
take her word for it
take him at his word
take it from her comments she won't be there.
take matters as they arise
take my advice
take office
Take one from three and you are left with two.
take prisoners
take revenge
take sun-baths
take the blue pill
take the ferry
take the guards prisoner
take the part of the villain/hero
take the path of least resistance
take the tempo slowly
take the throne
take two eggs from the carton
take two of these and call me in the morning
Take whichever bag you like.
That truck bed will only take two tons.
The camera takes 35mm film.
the dye didn't take
The earthquake took many lives.
The flu shot didn't take (on me).
The function takes two arguments, an array of size n and an integer k.
The general took dinner at seven o'clock.
The hull took a lot of punishment before it broke.
The kick is taken from where the foul occurred.
the leather that takes a certain kind of polish
The mayor is on the take.
The next bus will take you to Metz.
the next team took the field
The photographer will take you sitting down.
The plague took rich and poor alike.
The police took his fingerprints.
The pony took every hedge and fence in its path.
The school only takes new students in the fall.
The ship took a direct hit and was destroyed.
The store doesn't take checks.
The therapist wouldn't take him as a client.
The throw-in is taken from the point where the ball crossed the touch-line.
The trip will take about ten minutes.
The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.
the witness took the stand
The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!
These stairs take you down to the basement.
They took Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
They took ill within 3 hours.
They took two magazines.
This verb takes the dative; that verb takes the genitive.
to take a dislike
to take a group/scene
to take cold
to take pleasure in his opponent's death
took a chill
took a dim view of city officials
took a pay cut
took bribes
took her attention
took her fancy
took me for ten grand
took shape
took Smith's rook
took ten catfish in one afternoon
took the decision to close its last remaining outlet
took the form of a duck
took the next two tricks
took third place
Unloading the moving truck took us half a day, but this mess of a house will take us all weekend to tidy up. It takes ages to finish house moving!
What's your take on this issue, Fred?

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”), from pre-Germanic *deh₁g- (“to touch”), possibly a phonetically altered form of Proto-Indo-European *te-th₂g- (“to touch, take”) (see there for details).
Gradually displaced native Middle English nimen (“to take”; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”).
Cognates
Scots tak, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). English thack may be from the same root. Compare tackle. Despite superficial similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to take by hand, obtain”), which is instead cognate with English thig (“to beg”).

Synonyms

accept, acquire, admit, adopt, aim, ask, assume, bring, call for, carry, charter, choose, claim, conduct, consider, consume, contain, contract, convey, deal, demand, direct, drive, engage, exact, fill, film, get, get hold of, guide, have, hire, hold, ingest, involve, issue, lead, learn, lease, look at, make, necessitate, need, occupy, pack, payoff, pick out, postulate, proceeds, read, remove, rent, require, return, select, shoot, strike, study, submit, subscribe, subscribe to, take aim, take away, take in, take on, take up, takings, train, use up, withdraw, yield, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, abate, annihilate, appropriate, attain, bag, ball, bang, baptize, bate, bauf, be with, beat, beclasp, bed, beep, begrasp, begrip, belock, bereave of life, blight, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, catch, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clutch, coit, coitize, come by, compromised to a permanent end, confiscate, cop, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, deduct, demolish, destroy, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, doink, drill, dust, eff, eliminate, enclasp, end, enjoy, enlist, eradicate, ex, expletive deleted, expropriate, exterminate, fang, feague, feck, finish, finish off, flatten, fondle, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, gain, garner, get into someone's pants, get one's hands on, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, glaum, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, grab, grabble, grasp, grease, grip, hang on, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, help oneself, hit, hold on, hold tight, hook, hump, impropriate, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, land, lay, lay hands on, lay hold of, lay waste to, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make away with, make free with, mortify, mount, nab, nail, neutralize, nim, obliterate, obtain, off, pay off, penetrate, pick off, plough, plug, pocket, poke, polish off, pop off, pork, pound, prig, procure, pump, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, ream, receive, rock, roger, root, rub out, ruin, run through, rut, sack, sard, schlong, score, scotch, screw, scupper, scuttle, season, secure, seduce, see to, seize, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slaughter, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smite, smush, snag, snuff, squash, stallionize, stiff, stop someone's clock, stranglehold, subduct, subtract, swive, take, take care of, take down, take off, take out, tap, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, tup, wap, waste, wax, wet, whack, win, wipe out, wreck

Antonyms

abstain, disclaim, give, obviate, refuse, bring, return

Scrabble Score: 8

take: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
take: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
take: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

take: valid Words With Friends Word