Definition of Take

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Definition of Take

Take

To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene.

To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head.

Taken.

In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.

To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.

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

To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.

To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.

To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.

To draw; to deduce; to derive.

To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.

To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.

To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.

To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.

In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.

To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.

To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.

Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.

To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.

To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.

To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.

To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.

That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.

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

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Take Quotations

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Take Translations

take in Afrikaans is aanneem, aanvaar, oppik, neem, optel
take in Danish is modtage, tage op, tage
take in Dutch is accepteren, aannemen, aanvaarden
take in Finnish is ottaa, ottaa vastaan, varata
take in German is nehmen, nehmen, einnehmen
take in Italian is acchiappare, intervenire energicamente, accettare
take in Latin is capio
take in Norwegian is besette, godta
take in Portuguese is aceitar, tomada, ocupar
take in Spanish is tardar, agarrar, aceptar, tomar, perdurar, ocupar
take in Swedish is vidtaga, intaga, taga, ta

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