Word Finder - takes

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The or an act of taking.

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Something that is taken; a haul.

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An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.

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What's your take on this issue, Fred?

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An approach, a (distinct) treatment.

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a new take on a traditional dish

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A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.

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Act seven, scene three, take two.

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A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.

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A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.

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I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.

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An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.

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A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).

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The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.

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I'll take that plate off the table.

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To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

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The camera takes 35mm film.

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To remove.

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take two eggs from the carton

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To have sex with.

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To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.

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Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you.

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To grasp or grip.

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He took her hand in his.

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To select or choose; to pick.

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I'll take the blue plates.

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To adopt (select) as one's own.

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She took his side in every argument.

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To carry or lead (something or someone).

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I'll take the plate with me.

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To use as a means of transportation.

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He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester.

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To visit; to include in a course of travel.

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To obtain for use by payment or lease.

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He took a full-page ad in the Times.

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To consume.

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To experience, undergo, or endure.

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To cause to change to a specified state or condition.

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He had to take it apart to fix it.

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To regard in a specified way.

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He took the news badly.

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To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.

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took a dim view of city officials

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To understand (especially in a specified way).

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Don't take my comments as an insult.

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To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).

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He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work.

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To believe, to accept the statements of.

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take her word for it

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To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.

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Do you take me for a fool?

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To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).

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I'm not sure what moral to take from that story.

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To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.

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"As I Lay Dying" takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey"

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To catch or contract (an illness, etc).

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took a chill

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To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).

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To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.

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took her attention

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(of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).

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cloth that takes dye well

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(of a ship) To let in (water).

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To require.

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Finishing this on schedule will take a lot of overtime.

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To proceed to fill.

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He took a seat in the front row.

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To fill, to use up (time or space).

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His collection takes a lot of space.

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To avail oneself of.

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He took that opportunity to leave France.

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To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.

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Pirès ran in to take the kick.

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To assume or perform (a form or role).

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To bind oneself by.

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he took the oath of office last night

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To move into.

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the next team took the field

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To go into, through, or along.

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go down two blocks and take the next left

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To have and use one's recourse to.

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take cover/shelter/refuge

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To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.

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take a census

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To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.

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He took a mental inventory of his supplies.

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To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).

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Could you take a picture of us?

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To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).

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The photographer will take you sitting down.

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To obtain money from, especially by swindling.

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took me for ten grand

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(now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.

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As a child, she took ballet.

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To deal with.

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take matters as they arise

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To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.

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I've had a lot of problems recently: take last Monday, for example. My car broke down on the way to work. Then ... etc.

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To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.

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He'll probably take this one.

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To accept as an input to a relation.

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To get or accept (something) into one's possession.

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My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives.

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To engage, take hold or have effect.

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To become; to be affected in a specified way.

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She took sick with the flu.

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(possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.

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An intensifier.

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To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).

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(obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

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He took me a blow on the head.

All it takes is practice.

He takes the best ones.

Sometimes he has trouble sleeping and it takes very little noise to wake him.

It takes more than a week, he said with some amusement.

A man takes ownership of his deeds and acts responsibly.

It takes time for me to establish motion and I got a late start.

He takes care of sixty little blind girls and seventy little blind boys.

If I hand her a flower, and say, "Give it to mamma," she takes it to her mother.

The essence of my car is that it takes me places I want to go.

It isn't a sometimes thing, and it takes trust and honesty.

It takes a while to adjust.

Maybe it takes that long to count it!

If she could see and hear, I suppose she would get rid of her superfluous energy in ways which would not, perhaps, tax her brain so much, although I suspect that the ordinary child takes his play pretty seriously.

A secret this size – where the Dark One takes a mate – is not going to stay secret long.

It takes you longer to plan a dinner party, Evey!

This last proviso, however, as we shall see, takes away almost all practical importance from the proposition.

You toil not, neither do you spin, yet God takes care of you and your little ones.

I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to "keep himself in practice," he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he can do in this world, he says, beside this, to keep up and add to his English.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one.

I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth.

The Vishnu Purana says, "The house-holder is to remain at eventide in his courtyard as long as it takes to milk a cow, or longer if he pleases, to await the arrival of a guest."

As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of brains or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds.

The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.

My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no progress.

All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division-stipulates that no one is to interfere with his arrangements--leads his division to the decisive point, and gains the victory alone.

But however small the units it takes, we feel that to take any unit disconnected from others, or to assume a beginning of any phenomenon, or to say that the will of many men is expressed by the actions of any one historic personage, is in itself false.

They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly.

No battle--Tarutino, Borodino, or Austerlitz--takes place as those who planned it anticipated.

And they actually say he is not honest and takes bribes.

To take on this bastion takes balls, to use a crude term, unless there was a highly valuable prize as a reward.

She's his mate by Immortal laws, and we both know how seriously he takes his duty.

Nowadays, that takes an education.

Sometimes it takes more courage to give a child up than it does to keep it when you don't want it.

The soul radar takes me to you, if nowhere else.

It takes a lot to prepare yourself to die, Gabriel, which you of all people should appreciate.

I'm going through the portal.  Wherever it takes me, is where I'll go.

Every year Santa Claus takes a journey over the world in a sleigh drawn by a strong and rapid steed called "Rudolph."

Very. I can tell but it takes men longer to figure out that stuff.

I mean, you don't have what it takes to keep a mate alive, let alone safe.

As long as it takes.

It's temporary custody at first until some court stuff takes place and we're married but the lawyer says Shipton definitely signed.

I don't know if I have what it takes.

I only have one weapon that takes that ammo, so you can take it all.

If we find her, we can stop her before she takes Katie.  We don't know what the demons are doing, but we know Death is looking for Katie.

He takes the bus down every Wednesday—with the rest of the old folks.

That stuff takes planning.

He takes long weekends every time the weather starts heating up.

Iowa is a fun tour while 'Ride the Rockies' takes some serious training.

He takes care of the bills and he puts money in an account for me.

Sometimes it takes a long time and a lot of praying, but I'm living proof it can happen even after many years.