take

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
2. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
3. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
4. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
5. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
6. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
7. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
8. (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
9. (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
10. (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
11. (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
12. (intransitive, transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
13. (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
14. (transitive) To remove.
15. (transitive) To remove.
16. (transitive) To remove.
17. (transitive) To have sex with.
18. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
19. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
20. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
21. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
22. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
23. (especially, transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
24. (transitive, usually) To carry or lead (something or someone).
25. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
26. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
27. (reflexive, transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
28. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
29. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
30. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
31. (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
32. (dated, transitive) To consume (food or drink).
33. (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
34. (transitive) To experience or feel.
35. (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
36. (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
37. (transitive) To participate in.
38. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
39. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
40. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
41. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
42. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
43. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
44. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
45. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
46. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
47. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
48. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
49. (transitive) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
50. (transitive) To let in (water).
51. (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
52. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
53. (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
54. (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
55. (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
56. (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
57. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
58. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
59. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
60. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
61. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
62. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
63. (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
64. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
65. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
66. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
67. (dated, transitive) To make a picture, photograph, etc. of (a person, scene, etc.).
68. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
69. (transitive) To apply oneself to the study of.
70. (transitive) To deal with.
71. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
72. (transitive) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
73. (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
74. (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
75. (Cyprus, informal, transitive) To buy.
76. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
77. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
78. (intransitive, usually) To engage, take hold or have effect.
79. (intransitive, usually) To engage, take hold or have effect.
80. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
81. (dated, intransitive, possibly) To engage, take hold or have effect.
82. (copulative, intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
83. (dated, intransitive, possibly) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
84. (dialectal, intransitive, proscribed) An intensifier.
85. (obsolete, transitive) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
86. (dialectal, obsolete, slang, transitive) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
87. (archaic) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
88. (obsolete, rare) To portray in a painting.
89. Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.

Noun

1. The or an act of taking.
2. Something that is taken; a haul.
3. Something that is taken; a haul.
4. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
5. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
6. A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
7. A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
8. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
9. An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
10. A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
11. The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

Opposite of

give, bring

Synonyms

receive

bring

get

accept

🉑

carry

seize

pick up

catch

hold

grab

fetch

grasp

convey

capture

have

lead

assume

obtain

take in

occupy

choose

remove

select

take away

snatch

bear

🐻

pick

⛏️

take up

drive

eat

🍽️

adopt

gain

claim

move

transport

admit

win

take on

buy

🛍️

guide

acquire

steal

consume

take hold of

transfer

make

marry

draw

drink

🥤

lift

Translations

prendre

nehmen

prendere

tomar

tomar

nemen

coger

παίρνω

recevoir

agafar

saisir

أخذ

portare

almak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/teɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: taken

Inherited from Old English: tacan

Cognate with Scots: tak

Cognate with Icelandic: -

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: taka

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: ta

Cognate with Swedish: ta

Cognate with Danish: tage

Cognate with Middle Dutch: taken

Cognate with Dutch: taken

Cognate with Middle Low German: tacken

Cognate with Middle English: nimen

In summary

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”).

Sentences

If you want it , you must take it .

YOU WANNA TAKE THIS OUTSIDE ?

I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me .

The march is supposed to take place in March .

Take shelter in this tent , but keep still .

The brothers can only take their human forms for fifteen minutes every evening .