take

If you say to someone 'take it or leave it', you are telling them that they can accept something or not accept it, but that you are not prepared to discuss any other alternatives.

A take is a short piece of action which is filmed in one continuous process for a film.

Someone's take on a particular situation or fact is their attitude to it or their interpretation of it.

If you take after a member of your family, you resemble them in your appearance, your behaviour, or your character.

If you take something apart, you separate it into the different parts that it is made of.

If you take something away from someone, you remove it from them, so that they no longer possess it or have it with them.

If you take one number or amount away from another, you subtract one number from the other.

To take someone away means to bring them from their home to an institution such as a prison or hospital.

If you take something back, you return it to the place where you bought it or where you borrowed it from, because it is unsuitable or broken, or because you have finished with it.

If you take something back, you admit that something that you said or thought is wrong.

If you take someone back, you allow them to come home again, after they have gone away because of an argument or other problem.

If you say that something takes you back, you mean that it reminds you of a period of your past life and makes you think about it again.

If you take something down, you reach up and get it from a high place such as a shelf.

If you take down a structure, you remove each piece of it.

If you take down a piece of information or a statement, you write it down.

If you take someone in, you allow them to stay in your house or your country, especially when they do not have anywhere to stay or are in trouble.

If the police take someone in, they remove them from their home in order to question them.

If you are taken in by someone or something, you are deceived by them, so that you get a false impression of them.

If you take something in, you pay attention to it and understand it when you hear it or read it.

If you take something in, you see all of it.

If people, animals, or plants take in air, drink, or food, they allow it to enter their body, usually by breathing or swallowing.

When an aeroplane takes off, it leaves the ground and starts flying.

If something such as a product, an activity, or someone's career takes off, it suddenly becomes very successful.

If you take off or take yourself off, you go away, often suddenly and unexpectedly.

If you take a garment off, you remove it.

If you take time off, you obtain permission not to go to work for a short period of time.

If you take on a job or responsibility, especially a difficult one, you accept it.

If something takes on a new appearance or quality, it develops that appearance or quality.

If a vehicle such as a bus or ship takes on passengers, goods, or fuel, it stops in order to allow them to get on or to be loaded on.

If you take someone on, you employ them to do a job.

If you take someone on, you fight them or compete against them, especially when they are bigger or more powerful than you are.

If you take something on or upon yourself, you decide to do it without asking anyone for permission or approval.

If you take something out, you remove it permanently from its place.

If you take out something such as a loan, a licence, or an insurance policy, you obtain it by fulfilling the conditions and paying the money that is necessary.

If you take someone out, they go somewhere such as a restaurant or theatre with you after you have invited them, and usually you pay for them.

If you take over a company, you get control of it, for example, by buying its shares.

If someone takes over a country or building, they get control of it by force, for example, with the help of the army.

If you take over a job or role or if you take over, you become responsible for the job after someone else has stopped doing it.

If one thing takes over from something else, it becomes more important, successful, or powerful than the other thing, and eventually replaces it.

If you take to someone or something, you like them, especially after knowing them or thinking about them for only a short time.

If you take to doing something, you begin to do it as a regular habit.

If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.

If you take up a question, problem, or cause, you act on it or discuss how you are going to act on it.

If you take up a job, you begin to work at it.

If you take up an offer or a challenge, you accept it.

If something takes up a particular amount of time, space, or effort, it uses that amount.

If someone takes an insult or attack lying down, they accept it without protesting.

If something takes a lot out of you or takes it out of you, it requires a lot of energy or effort and makes you feel very tired and weak afterwards.

If someone tells you to take five or to take ten, they are telling you to have a five or ten minute break from what you are doing.

Someone who is on the take is receiving illegal income such as bribes.

You can use take followed by a noun to talk about an action or event, when it would also be possible to use the verb that is related to that noun. For example, you can say 'she took a shower' instead of 'she showered.'

In ordinary spoken or written English, people use take with a range of nouns instead of using a more specific verb. For example, people often say 'he took control' or 'she took a positive attitude' instead of 'he assumed control' or 'she adopted a positive attitude.'

If you take something, you reach out for it and hold it.

If you take something with you when you go somewhere, you carry it or have it with you.

If a person, vehicle, or path takes someone somewhere, they transport or lead them there.

If something such as a job or interest takes you to a place, it is the reason for you going there.

If you take something such as your problems or your business to someone, you go to that person when you have problems you want to discuss or things you want to buy.

If one thing takes another to a particular level, condition, or state, it causes it to reach that level or condition.

If you take something from a place, you remove it from there.

If you take something from someone who owns it, you steal it or go away with it without their permission.

If an army or political party takes something or someone, they win them from their enemy or opponent.

If you take one number or amount from another, you subtract it or deduct it.

If you cannot take something difficult, painful, or annoying, you cannot tolerate it without becoming upset, ill, or angry.

If you take something such as damage or loss, you suffer it, especially in war or in a battle.

If something takes a certain amount of time, that amount of time is needed in order to do it.

If something takes a particular quality or thing, that quality or thing is needed in order to do it.

If you take something that is given or offered to you, you agree to accept it.

If you take a feeling such as pleasure, pride, or delight in a particular thing or activity, it gives you that feeling.

If you take a prize or medal, you win it.

If you take the blame, responsibility, or credit for something, you agree to accept it.

If you take patients or clients, you accept them as your patients or clients.

If you take a telephone call, you speak to someone who is telephoning you.

If you take something in a particular way, you react in the way mentioned to a situation or to someone's beliefs or behaviour.

You use take when you are discussing or explaining a particular question, in order to introduce an example or to say how the question is being considered.

If you take someone's meaning or point, you understand and accept what they are saying.

If you take someone for something, you believe wrongly that they are that thing.

If you take a road or route, you choose to travel along it.

If you take a car, train, bus, or plane, you use it to go from one place to another.

If you take a subject or course at school or college, you choose to study it.

If you take a test or examination, you do it in order to show your knowledge or ability.

If someone takes drugs, pills, or other medicines, they take them into their body, for example, by swallowing them.

If you take a note or a letter, you write down something you want to remember or the words that someone says.

If you take a measurement, you find out what it is by measuring.

If a place or container takes a particular amount or number, there is enough space for that amount or number.

If you take a particular size in shoes or clothes, that size fits you.

If a shop, restaurant, theatre, or other business takes a certain amount of money, they get that amount from people buying goods or services.

If you are taken by someone, you are cheated or deceived by them.