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take
English
- 🔊 the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- 🔊 the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property“the average return was about 5%”
- 🔊 ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial“take a pulse”
- 🔊 be seized or affected in a specified way“take sick”
- 🔊 interpret something in a certain way“I read this address as a satire”
- 🔊 accept or undergo, often unwillingly“We took a pay cut”
- 🔊 obtain by winning“Winner takes all”
- 🔊 get into one's hands, take physically“Take a cookie!”
- 🔊 have sex with“He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable”
- 🔊 travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route“He takes the bus to work”
- 🔊 head into a specified direction“The escaped convict took to the hills”
- 🔊 experience or feel or submit to“Take a test”
- 🔊 to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort“take shelter from the storm”
- 🔊 take into one's possession“We are taking an orphan from Romania”
- 🔊 take by force“Hitler took the Baltic Republics”
- 🔊 buy, select“I'll take a pound of that sausage”
- 🔊 make use of or accept for some purpose“take a risk”
- 🔊 require (time or space)“It took three hours to get to work this morning”
- 🔊 develop a habit“He took to visiting bars”
- 🔊 carry out“take action”
- 🔊 be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness“He got AIDS”
- 🔊 remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract“remove a threat”
- 🔊 pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives“Take any one of these cards”
- 🔊 take into consideration for exemplifying purposes“Take the case of China”
- 🔊 take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs“the accident claimed three lives”
- 🔊 lay claim to“She took credit for the whole idea”
- 🔊 point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards“Please don't aim at your little brother!”
- 🔊 proceed along in a vehicle“We drive the turnpike to work”
- 🔊 occupy or take on“He assumes the lotus position”
- 🔊 take somebody somewhere“We lead him to our chief”
- 🔊 receive willingly something given or offered“The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter”
- 🔊 assume, as of positions or roles“She took the job as director of development”
- 🔊 be capable of holding or containing“This box won't take all the items”
- 🔊 be designed to hold or take“This surface will not take the dye”
- 🔊 make a film or photograph of something“take a scene”
- 🔊 take something or somebody with oneself somewhere“Bring me the box from the other room”
- 🔊 receive or obtain regularly“We take the Times every day”
- 🔊 admit into a group or community“accept students for graduate study”
- 🔊 have with oneself“She always takes an umbrella”
- 🔊 be a student of a certain subject“She is reading for the bar exam”
Spanish
- 🔊 caber to take
- 🔊 prestar to take
- 🔊 regir to take
- 🔊 tomar to take
- 🔊 prender to take, to pick up
- 🔊 levantar to take, make (a census)
- 🔊 echar to take, have (a look at)
- 🔊 coger to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
- 🔊 llevar to take, to take out (implies moving someone further from the speaker)
- 🔊 llevar to take, to carry, to take away, to carry away, to carry around, to bring, to bear, to lug (implies to move something further from who speaks)