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take

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 caber to take
  2. 🔊 prestar to take
  3. 🔊 regir to take
  4. 🔊 tomar to take
  5. 🔊 prender to take, to pick up
  6. 🔊 levantar to take, make (a census)
  7. 🔊 echar to take, have (a look at)
  8. 🔊 coger to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
  9. 🔊 llevar to take, to take out (implies moving someone further from the speaker)
  10. 🔊 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)

Similar words

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