take : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a delayed reaction indicating surprise
  

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• verb make mutual concessions
  
  • In life you have to give and take

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• adverb plus or minus a small amount
  
  • it is a mile away, give or take a few hundred yards

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• noun an exchange of views on some topic
  word; discussion.
  
  • we had a good discussion
  • we had a word or two about it
• noun light teasing repartee
  banter; raillery; backchat.
  
• noun mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
  interchange; reciprocation.
  

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• take a trip in a wheeled vehicle, usu. an automobile.

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• noun the act of departing politely
  leave; farewell; parting.
  
  • he disliked long farewells
  • he took his leave
  • parting is such sweet sorrow

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Leave"-tak`ing noun

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1. Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.

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Nap"-tak`ing noun

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1. A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack. Carew.

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• noun the act of taking and printing photographs
  photography.
  

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Side"-tak`ing noun

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1. A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.

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• an examination and inventory made of goods or stock in a shop or warehouse; usually made periodically.

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• noun an instance of stocktaking
  stocktake.
  
  • the auditor did not attend the stocktake or check the valuations
• verb make or include in an itemized record or report
  stock-take; inventory.
  
  • Inventory all books before the end of the year

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• noun reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook
  stocktaking.
  
• noun making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
  inventorying; stocktaking; inventory.
  
  • an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing
  • they held an inventory every month
• verb make or include in an itemized record or report
  stock-take; inventory.
  
  • Inventory all books before the end of the year

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• verb acknowledge praise or accept credit
  
  • They finally took a bow for what they did
• verb acknowledge applause by inclining the head, as of an artist after a performance
  

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• verb draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
  breathe; respire; suspire.
  
  • I can breathe better when the air is clean
  • The patient is respiring

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• verb take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
  breathe; catch one's breath; rest.
  

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• verb take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
  risk; take a chance; hazard; chance; adventure; gamble; run a risk.
  
  • When you buy these stocks you are gambling

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• verb have a bowel movement
  crap; defecate; make; stool; ca-ca; take a crap; shit.
  
  • The dog had made in the flower beds

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• verb be dared to do something and not attempt it
  
• verb be dared to do something and attempt it
  pick up the gauntlet.
  

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• verb pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer
  

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• verb be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
  insist.
  
  • I must insist!

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• verb inhale through the nose
  snort.
  

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• verb spring back; spring away from an impact
  spring; rebound; bound; bounce; reverberate; recoil; resile; ricochet.
  
  • The rubber ball bounced
  • These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide

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• verb listen to a joke at one's own expense
  
  • Can't you take a joke?

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• verb eliminate urine
  wee-wee; spend a penny; wee; piddle; micturate; pee-pee; make; pass water; make water; relieve oneself; pee; urinate; puddle; piss.
  
  • Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

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• verb look at with attention
  get a load; have a look.
  
  • Have a look at this!
  • Get a load of this pretty woman!

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• verb disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)
  skip town.
  

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• verb have a bowel movement
  crap; defecate; make; stool; ca-ca; take a crap; shit.
  
  • The dog had made in the flower beds

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• verb surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
  shock; ball over; blow out of the water; floor.
  
  • I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

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• verb be fully aware of; realize fully
  appreciate.
  
  • Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?

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• verb draw advantages from
  capitalize; capitalise.
  
  • he is capitalizing on her mistake
  • she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover
• verb make excessive use of
  trespass.
  
  • You are taking advantage of my good will!
  • She is trespassing upon my privacy

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• verb be similar to a relative
  
  • She takes after her father!
• verb imitate in behavior; take as a model
  follow.
  
  • Teenagers follow their friends in everything

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• verb point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
  aim; direct; train; take.
  
  • Please don't aim at your little brother!
  • He trained his gun on the burglar
  • Don't train your camera on the women
  • Take a swipe at one's opponent

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• verb take apart into its constituent pieces
  break up; dismantle; break apart; disassemble.
  
• verb divide into pieces
  discerp; dismember.
  
  • our department was dismembered when our funding dried up
  • The Empire was discerped after the war
• verb make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
  dissect; analyze; analyse; break down.
  
  • analyze a specimen
  • analyze a sentence
  • analyze a chemical compound

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• verb commence hostilities
  take arms; go to war.
  

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• verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
  bear off; carry away; carry off; bear away.
  
  • Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
  • The car carried us off to the meeting
  • I'll take you away on a holiday
  • I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
• verb remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
  withdraw; take; remove.
  
  • remove a threat
  • remove a wrapper
  • Remove the dirty dishes from the table
  • take the gun from your pocket
  • This machine withdraws heat from the environment
• verb take out or remove
  take away.
  
  • take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
• verb take from a person or place
  
  • We took the abused child away from its parents
• verb buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
  take away.
  
  • We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
• verb get rid of something abstract
  remove.
  
  • The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage
  • God takes away your sins
• verb take away a part from; diminish
  detract.
  
  • His bad manners detract from his good character

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• verb bring back to the point of departure
  bring back; return.
  
• verb regain possession of something
  repossess.
  
• verb resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
  
• verb move text to the previous line; in printing
  
• verb take back what one has said
  swallow; withdraw; unsay.
  
  • He swallowed his words
• verb cause someone to remember the past
  
  • This photo takes me back to the good old days

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• verb be careful, prudent, or watchful
  
  • Take care when you cross the street!
• verb be in charge of or deal with
  mind.
  
  • She takes care of all the necessary arrangements
• verb take charge of or deal with
  see; attend; look.
  
  • Could you see about lunch?
  • I must attend to this matter
  • She took care of this business

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• verb take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
  risk; take a chance; hazard; chance; adventure; gamble; run a risk.
  
  • When you buy these stocks you are gambling

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• verb assume control
  take charge; take control.
  

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• verb assume control
  take charge; take control.
  

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• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
  lower; get down; let down; bring down.
  
  • take down the vase from the shelf
• verb reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  demean; disgrace; degrade; put down.
  
  • She tends to put down younger women colleagues
  • His critics took him down after the lecture
• verb tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  rase; level; dismantle; pull down; tear down; raze.
  
  • The building was levelled
• verb make a written note of
  note.
  
  • she noted everything the teacher said that morning

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• verb go into effect or become effective or operative
  
  • The new law will take effect next month

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• verb raise a formal objection in a court of law
  challenge.
  

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• verb start to burn or burst into flames
  ignite; catch fire; combust; erupt; conflagrate.
  
  • Marsh gases ignited suddenly
  • The oily rags combusted spontaneously

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• verb take a break for five minutes
  
  • The musicians took five during the rehearsal

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• verb run away quickly
  fly; flee.
  
  • He threw down his gun and fled

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• verb keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
  hold; deem; view as.
  
  • take for granted
  • view as important
  • hold these truths to be self-evident
  • I hold him personally responsible

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• verb take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
  assume; presume.
  
  • I assume his train was late

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• verb develop into a distinctive entity
  spring; form; take form.
  
  • our plans began to take shape

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• verb gain courage
  buck up.
  

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• verb listen and pay attention
  hear; listen.
  
  • Listen to your father
  • We must hear the expert before we make a decision

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• verb assume control
  take charge; take control.
  
• verb have or hold in one's hands or grip
  hold.
  
  • Hold this bowl for a moment, please
  • A crazy idea took hold of him

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• verb take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
  catch; grab.
  
  • Catch the ball!
  • Grab the elevator door!

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• verb earn as a salary or wage
  bring home.
  
  • How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?

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• verb provide with shelter
  
• verb fool or hoax
  fool; put on; gull; dupe; befool; put one over; cod; put one across; slang.
  
  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!
• verb suck or take up or in
  absorb.
  
  • A black star absorbs all matter
• verb visit for entertainment
  
  • take in the sights
• verb call for and obtain payment of
  collect.
  
  • we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
  • he collected the rent
• verb see or watch
  catch; see; watch; view.
  
  • view a show on television
  • This program will be seen all over the world
  • view an exhibition
  • Catch a show on Broadway
  • see a movie
• verb express willingness to have in one's home or environs
  receive; invite.
  
  • The community warmly received the refugees
• verb fold up
  gather in.
  
  • take in the sails
• verb take up mentally
  assimilate; absorb; ingest.
  
  • he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
• verb earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
  earn; bring in; clear; pull in; gain; realise; realize; make.
  
  • How much do you make a month in your new job?
  • She earns a lot in her new job
  • this merger brought in lots of money
  • He clears $5,000 each month
• verb hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
  catch; overhear.
  
  • We overheard the conversation at the next table
• verb accept
  take in.
  
  • The cloth takes up the liquid
• verb take in, also metaphorically
  draw; imbibe; absorb; soak up; take in; suck up; suck; sop up.
  
  • The sponge absorbs water well
  • She drew strength from the minister's words
• verb take up as if with a sponge
  suck in; sop up; take in.
  
• verb serve oneself to, or consume regularly
  have; consume; ingest; take.
  
  • Have another bowl of chicken soup!
  • I don't take sugar in my coffee
• verb take into one's family
  adopt.
  
  • They adopted two children from Nicaragua
• verb make (clothes) smaller
  
  • Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight

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• verb accept as a charge
  undertake.
  

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• verb use a name, such as God, without proper respect
  

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• verb take in water at the bilge
  bilge.
  
  • the tanker bilged

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• verb allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
  allow.
  
  • I allow for this possibility
  • The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash

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• verb be of different opinions
  dissent; differ; disagree.
  
  • I beg to differ!
  • She disagrees with her husband on many questions

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• verb settle into a comfortable sitting position
  sit back.
  

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• verb undergo failure or defeat
  

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• verb be willing or inclined to accept
  
  • He did not take kindly to my critical remarks

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• verb go away or leave
  quit; depart.
  

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• verb suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
  
  • I won't take this insult lying down

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• verb observe with care or pay close attention to
  note; observe.
  
  • Take note of this chemical reaction

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• verb observe with special attention
  
  • Take notice of the great architecture

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• verb leave
  depart; set forth; set off; start out; start; part; set out.
  
  • The family took off for Florida
• verb take away or remove
  
  • Take that weight off me!
• verb depart from the ground
  lift off.
  
  • The plane took off two hours late
• verb take time off from work; stop working temporarily
  take off.
  
• verb mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
  
  • This song takes off from a famous aria
• verb remove clothes
  
  • take off your shirt--it's very hot in here
• verb get started or set in motion, used figuratively
  get off the ground.
  
  • the project took a long time to get off the ground
• verb prove fatal
  
  • The disease took off
• verb make a subtraction
  deduct; subtract.
  
  • subtract this amount from my paycheck

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• verb assume an office, duty, or title
  
  • When will the new President take office?

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• verb take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
  assume; acquire; take; adopt.
  
  • His voice took on a sad tone
  • The story took a new turn
  • he adopted an air of superiority
  • She assumed strange manners
  • The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
• verb take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  assume; take on; adopt.
  
  • When will the new President assume office?
• verb accept as a challenge
  tackle; undertake.
  
  • I'll tackle this difficult task
• verb admit into a group or community
  admit; take; accept.
  
  • accept students for graduate study
  • We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
• verb contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
  meet; play; encounter.
  
  • Princeton plays Yale this weekend
  • Charlie likes to play Mary

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• verb suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
  get one's lumps.
  

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• verb receive and be expected to follow directions or commands
  
  • I don't take orders from you!
• verb be ordained; enter the Christian ministry
  
  • She took orders last month

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• verb cause to leave
  remove; move out.
  
  • The teacher took the children out of the classroom
• verb remove from its packing
  unpack.
  
  • unpack the presents
• verb take out or remove
  take away.
  
  • take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
• verb obtain by legal or official process
  
  • take out a license
  • take out a patent
• verb make a date
  invite out; ask out.
  
  • Has he asked you out yet?
• verb remove something from a container or an enclosed space
  
• verb purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
  buy food.
  
• verb remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
  draw; draw off; withdraw.
  
  • She drew $2,000 from the account
  • The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank
• verb bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
  pull; draw; pull out; get out.
  
  • draw a weapon
  • pull out a gun
  • The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
• verb take liquid out of a container or well
  draw.
  
  • She drew water from the barrel
• verb remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
  pull; pull out; pull up; draw out; extract.
  
  • pull weeds
  • extract a bad tooth
  • take out a splinter
  • extract information from the telegram
• verb buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
  take away.
  
  • We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
• verb take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
  extract; excerpt.
  
• verb prevent from being included or considered or accepted
  omit; except; leave off; leave out; exclude.
  
  • The bad results were excluded from the report
  • Leave off the top piece

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• verb seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
  assume; arrogate; usurp; seize.
  
  • He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
  • he usurped my rights
  • She seized control of the throne after her husband died
• verb take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
  assume; take on; adopt.
  
  • When will the new President assume office?
• verb free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
  relieve.
  
• verb take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
  assume; accept; bear.
  
  • I'll accept the charges
  • She agreed to bear the responsibility
• verb take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
  buy out; buy up.
  
• verb do over
  repeat.
  
  • They would like to take it over again
• verb take up and practice as one's own
  take over; adopt; borrow.
  
• verb take up, as of debts or payments
  absorb.
  
  • absorb the costs for something

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• verb try very hard to do something
  be at pains.
  

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• verb share in something
  participate.
  

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• verb come to pass
  fall out; pass off; come about; pass; hap; happen; occur; go on.
  
  • What is happening?
  • The meeting took place off without an incidence
  • Nothing occurred that seemed important

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• verb feel proud of
  pride oneself.
  
  • She took great pride in her sons

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• verb become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
  settle; root; steady down; settle down.
  
  • He finally settled down

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• verb develop into a distinctive entity
  spring; form; take form.
  
  • our plans began to take shape

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• verb attract attention onto oneself
  take stage.
  

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• verb to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
  size up; scrutinize; scrutinise.
  
  • he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror
• verb make or include in an itemized record or report
  stock-take; inventory.
  
  • Inventory all books before the end of the year

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• verb take a ten minute break
  
  • The players took ten during the long rehearsal

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• verb take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
  walk.
  
  • The lovers held hands while walking
  • We like to walk every Sunday

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• verb face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it
  

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• verb rank first; used often in a negative context
  
  • He takes the cake for chutzpah!

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• verb be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten
  remain down.
  

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• verb go on a campaign; go off to war
  campaign.
  
• verb go on the playing field, of a football team
  

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• verb refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself
  take the Fifth.
  

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• verb refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself
  take the Fifth.
  

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• verb stand up to dance
  
• verb rise in order to make a speech or motion
  

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• verb give theatrical performances while traveling from town to town
  

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• verb attract attention onto oneself
  take stage.
  

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• verb give testimony in a court of law
  bear witness; attest; testify.
  

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• verb become a nun
  
  • The young woman took the veil after her fiance died

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• verb act quickly and decisively; not let slip an opportunity
  

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• verb take time off from work; stop working temporarily
  take off.
  

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• verb have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
  go for; fancy.
  
  • She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
• verb develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
  
  • She took to drink
  • Men take to the military trades

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• verb look on as or consider
  regard as; look upon; think of; esteem; look on; repute.
  
  • she looked on this affair as a joke
  • He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician
  • He is reputed to be intelligent

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• verb get down to; pay attention to; take seriously
  attend to.
  
  • Attend to your duties, please

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• verb censure severely or angrily
  call on the carpet; rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; have words; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
  
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

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• verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  lam; run; head for the hills; hightail it; bunk; run away; scarper; escape; fly the coop; break away; scat; turn tail.
  
  • If you see this man, run!
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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• verb do something in turns
  alternate.
  
  • We take turns on the night shift

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• verb pursue or resume
  
  • take up a matter for consideration
• verb adopt
  fasten on; hook on; seize on; latch on.
  
  • take up new ideas
• verb turn one's interest to
  
  • He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
• verb take up time or space
  
  • take up the slack
• verb begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
  start.
  
  • Take up a position
  • start a new job
• verb take up and practice as one's own
  take over; adopt; borrow.
  
• verb occupy or take on
  assume; strike; take.
  
  • He assumes the lotus position
  • She took her seat on the stage
  • We took our seats in the orchestra
  • She took up her position behind the tree
  • strike a pose
• verb take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
  sorb.
  
• verb take out or up with or as if with a scoop
  scoop out; scoop; scoop up; lift out.
  
  • scoop the sugar out of the container
• verb accept
  take in.
  
  • The cloth takes up the liquid
• verb take in, also metaphorically
  draw; imbibe; absorb; soak up; take in; suck up; suck; sop up.
  
  • The sponge absorbs water well
  • She drew strength from the minister's words
• verb take up as if with a sponge
  suck in; sop up; take in.
  
• verb return to a previous location or condition
  resume.
  
  • The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it

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• verb commence hostilities
  take arms; go to war.
  

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• verb enter the water
  
  • the wild ducks took water

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• adjective satellite of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises
  takeout.
  
  • takeout pizza
  • the takeout counter
  • `take-away' is chiefly British

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• adjective satellite (of salary or wages) remaining after all deductions including taxes
  

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• noun what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc
  

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• noun the act of taking in as by fooling or cheating or swindling someone
  

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Take"-in` noun

Definitions

1. Imposition; fraud. Colloq.

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Take"-off` noun

Definitions

1. An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

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• noun any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
  
  • a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool
• noun the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
  

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Take"-up` noun

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1. (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

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• adjective satellite evident without proof or argument
  self-evident; axiomatic.
  
  • an axiomatic truth
  • we hold these truths to be self-evident

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• adjective satellite having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
  preoccupied; haunted; obsessed.
  
  • became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle
  • was absolutely obsessed with the girl
  • got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children
  • he was taken up in worry for the old woman

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• adjective satellite marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  infatuated; smitten; enamored; potty; in love; soft on.
  
  • gaga over the rock group's new album
  • he was infatuated with her

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• noun the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces
  dismemberment.
  

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• noun the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
  grasping; seizing; prehension.
  

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• noun the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
  apprehension; pinch; arrest; catch; collar.
  
  • the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar

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• noun acquisition of property by descent or by will
  succession.
  

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Tak"ing-off` noun

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1. Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.

   The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.

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• . A corruption of to be taken in the mainor. See Mainor. To be taken in the very act. Obs. See Mainor.

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• . (a) To be driven backward against the mast; said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited.

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• See under Aback, Advantage, etc.

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• . (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.

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• to give or take (a woman) in marriage.

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• to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. Colloq. U.S.

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• to take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.

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• to send forth roots; to become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The bended twigs take root." Milton.

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• to make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity.

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• to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

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• to bring the law to bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor. Addison.

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• to gain or have the advantage. Bacon.

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• (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.

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• to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. Low

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• to use a name lightly or profanely; to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths. Ex. xx. 7.

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• to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.

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• to reduce the size of (a sail) by folding or rolling up a reef, and lashing it to the spar.

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• to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. U.S.

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• to take into consideration; to notice.

  "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton

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• to make the acquaintance of. Obs.

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• to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

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• . (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

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• . (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

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• to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.

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• to be divulged; to be made public.

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• to carry, lead, or convey.

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• (Naut.), to ascertain the altitude of a heavenly body, with a view to fixing a vessel's position at sea.

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• to commence war or hostilities.

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• to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." Dryden.

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• to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence  to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity.

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• to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.

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• to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" 1 Cor. ix. 9.

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• to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee.

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• to take offense. Obs. Dryden.

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• . (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud . "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold . (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.

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• to become operative, to accomplish aims. Shak.

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• . See under Effect, and Fire.

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• to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.

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• (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left.

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• to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged.

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• to take courage.

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• to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." Dryden.

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• to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways.

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• to seize; to fix on.

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• . (a) To set out on horseback. Macaulay. (b) To be covered, as a mare. (c) See definition 7 (above).
• to mount and ride a horse.

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• to take offence.

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• . (a) To inclose; to fence . (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend . (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail . (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive . Colloq. (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest . Obs.

  For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman.

  (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions." I. Watts. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. Eng.

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• . (a) To attempt or undertake . (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand.

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• to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Ex. xx. 7.

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• to resort to. Obs. Bacon.

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• to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

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• . See under Issue.

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• to be angry or offended. Shak.

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• to take care; to heed. Obs. Chaucer.

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• . See Leave, n., 2.

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• to make preparations; to provide means.

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• to observe, or to observe with particular attention.

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• to perceive especially; to observe or treat with particular attention.

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• to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner.

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• . (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb . (c) To destroy; as, to take off life . (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument . (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away . Locke. (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine. (g) To purchase; to take in trade . "The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off." Locke. (h) To copy; to reproduce. "Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take off. R. Bacon. to begin to fly; said of an airplane, or of a person operating an airplane or other flying device.
• to mimic or personate. also, to take off on, to do a take-off on

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• to feel, or assume to be, injured or affronted; to become angry or hostile.

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• to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility.
• to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner.

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• to measure one, as for a garment; hence, to form an opinion of one's disposition, character, ability, etc.

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• to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.

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• to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning.

  Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. Shak.

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• to check; to hinder; to repress. Obs. Bacon.

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• . (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10.

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• . (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth . (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent . (d) To put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a man . (e) To escort; as, to take out to dinner. usu. paying the expenses

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• to undertake; to take the management of. Eng. Cross (Life of G. Eliot).

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• to share; as, they take part in our rejoicing.

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• to unite with; to join with. take part in = participate in

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• . (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. "If your doctrine takes place." Berkeley. "But none of these excuses would take place." Spenser.

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• See under Place, Root, Side, etc.

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• to have enjoyment in. Ps. cxlvii. 11.

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• to enter upon, or to bring within one's power or occupancy.

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• to take what food may chance to be provided.

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• to have precedence over, or to have the right of taking a higher place than.

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• to assume a definite form.

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• to embark; to take ship. Obs. John vi.24. Shak.

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• to attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.

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• to take aim; to look for the purpose of directing a piece of artillery, or the like.

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• to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.

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• to take action; to move in a matter.

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• to take account of stock; to make an inventory of stock or goods on hand. Dickens.

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• . (a) To subscribe for, or purchase, shares in a stock company. (b) To put faith in; to accept as trustworthy; as, to take stock in a person's fidelity . Slang

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• to take account of the stock of; to take an inventory of; hence, to ascertain the facts in regard to (something). Eng.

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• to go abroad; to walk or ride out.

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• to retrace one's steps; to retreat. Colloq.

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• to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

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• to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

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• (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign.

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• to touch bottom or become stranded; said of a ship.

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• to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.

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• to be substituted for.

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• to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

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• to begin or engage in traveling.

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• to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience.

  She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.

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• (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

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• . to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. "I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's." Shak.

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• to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another. Colloq.

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• to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi. 25, 27.

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• . (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices.

  "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole.

  (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to.

  "Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world." Addison.

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• to grieve over.

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• to reprove; to censure.

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• to take off.

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• to flee; to betake to flight.

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• to engage in robbery upon the highways.

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• to alternate; to succeed one another in due order.

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• . (a) To lift; to raise. Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation . Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches ; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room . (f) To take permanently . "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. Obs.

  The ancients took up experiments upon credit. Bacon.

  (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.

  One of his relations took him up roundly. L'Estrange.

  (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession.

  Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Addison.

  The second volume takes up where the first left off. (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take up our old trade of conquering." Dryden. (m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our bills." Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing . (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel . Obs. Shak. (s) To accept from someone, as a wager or a challenge. "J. took M. up on his challenge."
• . (a) To stop. Obs.

  "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson

  . (b) To reform. Obs. Locke.

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• . Same as To take arms, above.

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• to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

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• to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.

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• to accept a challenge.

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• to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.

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• to make or declare war. The last two phrases are derived from the practice of the American Indians.

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• . (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare .

  "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." I. Watts.

  (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. Obs. L'Estrange.

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• to assume.

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• . (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment .

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• to escape; to be made public. R.

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• to please. Bacon.

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