verb To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
Example: I'll take that plate off the table.
verb To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
Example: The camera takes 35mm film.
verb To remove.
Example: take two eggs from the carton
verb To have sex with.
verb To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
Example: Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.
verb To grasp or grip.
Example: He took her hand in his.
verb To select or choose; to pick.
Example: I'll take the blue plates.
verb To adopt (select) as one's own.
Example: She took his side in every argument.
verb To carry or lead (something or someone).
Example: I'll take the plate with me.
verb To use as a means of transportation.
Example: He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.
verb To visit; to include in a course of travel.
verb To obtain for use by payment or lease.
Example: He took a full-page ad in the Times.
verb To consume.
verb To experience, undergo, or endure.
verb To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
Example: He had to take it apart to fix it.
verb To regard in a specified way.
Example: He took the news badly.
verb To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
Example: took a dim view of city officials
verb To understand (especially in a specified way).
Example: Don't take my comments as an insult.
verb To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
Example: He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work.
verb To believe, to accept the statements of.
Example: take her word for it
verb To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
Example: Do you take me for a fool?
verb To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
Example: I'm not sure what moral to take from that story.
verb To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
Example: "As I Lay Dying" takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey"
verb To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
Example: took a chill
verb To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
verb To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
Example: took her attention
verb (of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
Example: cloth that takes dye well
verb (of a ship) To let in (water).
verb To require.
Example: Finishing this on schedule will take a lot of overtime.
verb To proceed to fill.
Example: He took a seat in the front row.
verb To fill, to use up (time or space).
Example: His collection takes a lot of space.
verb To avail oneself of.
Example: He took that opportunity to leave France.
verb To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
Example: Pirès ran in to take the kick.
verb To assume or perform (a form or role).
verb To bind oneself by.
Example: he took the oath of office last night
verb To move into.
Example: the next team took the field
verb To go into, through, or along.
Example: go down two blocks and take the next left
verb To have and use one's recourse to.
Example: take cover/shelter/refuge
verb To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
Example: take a census
verb To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
Example: He took a mental inventory of his supplies.
verb To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
Example: Could you take a picture of us?
verb To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
Example: The photographer will take you sitting down.
verb To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
Example: took me for ten grand
verb (now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
Example: As a child, she took ballet.
verb To deal with.
Example: take matters as they arise
verb To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
Example: I've had a lot of problems recently: take last Monday, for example. My car broke down on the way to work. Then ... etc.
verb To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
Example: He'll probably take this one.
verb To accept as an input to a relation.
verb To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
Example: My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives.
verb To engage, take hold or have effect.
verb To become; to be affected in a specified way.
Example: She took sick with the flu.
verb (possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
verb An intensifier.
verb To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
verb (obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
Example: He took me a blow on the head.