The or an act of taking.
A noun "take" represents something that is taken, such as a haul, money, or a quantity of fish, game animals, or pelts.
An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
(film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
(music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
(medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
(rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
(printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
(transitive) To acquire or gain possession of something, whether by force, capture, catching, appropriation, or winning in a game.
(transitive) Receive or accept something, whether it be payment, advice, a relationship, or property, either by choice or by law.
(transitive) Remove, end by death, kill, subtract.
(transitive) To have sex with.
(transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
(transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
(transitive) Carry, transport, lead, pass through, escort, conduct, and go.
(transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
(transitive) Obtain or receive something regularly by payment or lease, or through a paid subscription.
(transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
(transitive) To consume (food or drink).
(transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
(transitive) To experience or feel.
(transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
(transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
(transitive) To participate in.
(transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
(transitive) To regard in a specified way.
(transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
(transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
(transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
(transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
(transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
(transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
(transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
(transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
(transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
(transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
(transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
(transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
(transitive) To require.
(transitive) To proceed to fill.
(transitive) To fill, require, or use up (time or space).
(transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
(transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
(transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
(transitive) Assume or perform a form or role, assume a form, perform a role, and assume and undertake the duties of a job or office.
(transitive) To bind oneself by.
(transitive) To move into.
(transitive) To go into, through, or along.
(transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
(transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
(transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
(transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
(transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
(transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
(transitive) To deal with.
(transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
(transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
(transitive) Accept as an input to a relation, be used with a certain grammatical form, and accept zero or more arguments in mathematics and computing.
(intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
(intransitive) Engage, hold, or have effect; adhere or be absorbed properly (for ink, dye, etc.); begin to grow after being grafted or planted (for a plant, etc.); catch or engage (for a mechanical device).
(intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.