What is the meaning of TAKE. Phrases containing TAKE
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Take down is American slang for to kill.
Take a powder is American and Canadian slang for to run away or disappear.
Take Five is slang for have a brief rest or respite from ones task.
Take the shame is slang for to accept the blame for something, often publicly.
Take the Arthur is British slang for to mock, to verbally assault.
Take the Mickey Bliss is London Cockney rhyming slang for to mock (take the piss).
Take out is slang for to kill or destroy.
Take the piss is slang for to ridicule, cruelly joke with; to mock.
Take names is American slang for to take control, to chastise.
Take the Mick is British slang for to mock.
Take a raincheck is slang for to postpone.
Take the huff is British slang for to take offence, to lose one's temper.
Take a pop at is slang for to attack, to hit, to lash out at.
Take sights is criminal slang for observe, watch closely.
Take the biscuit is slang for to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred.
Take the Michael is British slang for to mock.
take LSD
Take the Mickey is British slang for to mock.
Take it easy is slang for a parting salutation to not let life get one down.
Take one's lumps is American slang for to suffer misfortune.
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v. t.
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.
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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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
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That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
v. t.
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.
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To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
p. p.
of Take
p. p.
Taken.
v. t.
Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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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.
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To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
v. i.
To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
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.
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