How to pronounce take in English
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"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."