5 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: take noun 1: the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: {return}, {issue}, {proceeds}, {takings}, {yield}, {payoff}] 2: the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption verb 1: carry out; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance" 2: as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: {occupy}, {use up}] 3: take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: {lead}, {direct}, {conduct}, {guide}] 4: get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please" [syn: {get hold of}] 5: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: {assume}, {acquire}, {adopt}, {take on}] 6: interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" [syn: {read}] 7: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: {bring}, {convey}] 8: take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" [ant: {give}] 9: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent" [syn: {necessitate}, {ask}, {postulate}, {need}, {require}, {involve}, {call for}, {demand}] [ant: {obviate}] 10: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: {choose}, {select}, {pick out}] 11: travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark" 12: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn: {accept}, {have}] [ant: {refuse}] 13: assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development" [syn: {fill}] 14: take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn: {consider}, {deal}, {look at}] 15: experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" 16: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {shoot}] 17: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: {remove}, {take away}, {withdraw}] 18: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: {consume}, {ingest}, {take in}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}] 19: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: {undergo}, {submit}] 20: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" [syn: {accept}] 21: take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" 22: occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" [syn: {assume}, {strike}, {take up}] 23: admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: {accept}, {admit}, {take on}] 24: ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" 25: be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: {learn}, {study}, {read}] 26: take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" [syn: {claim}, {exact}] 27: head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" [syn: {make}] 28: aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: {aim}, {train}, {take aim}, {direct}] 29: be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk" 30: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" [syn: {carry}, {pack}] 31: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: {lease}, {rent}, {hire}, {charter}, {engage}] 32: receive or obtain by regular payment; "We take the Times every day" [syn: {subscribe}, {subscribe to}] 33: buy, select; "I'll take a pound of that sausage" 34: to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; "take shelter from the storm" 35: have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" [syn: {have}] 36: lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea" [syn: {claim}] [ant: {disclaim}] 37: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye" [syn: {accept}] 38: be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" [syn: {contain}, {hold}] 39: develop a habit; "He took to visiting bars" 40: proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work" [syn: {drive}] 41: obtain by winning; "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize" 42: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: {contract}, {get}] [also: {took}, {taken}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: taken adjective 1: understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation" [syn: {interpreted}] 2: having possession gained especially by force or effort [ant: {given}] 3: be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill"; "couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk" From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: taken See {take} From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Take \Take\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. 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. Hence, specifically: (a) 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 an 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. This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. --Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak. (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. --Prov. vi. 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. --Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. --Moore. (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv. 42. The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. --Hammond. (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by car. This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. --I. Watts. (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take a picture of a person. Beauty alone could beauty take so right. --Dryden. (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. --Tillotson. (g) 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. (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a dictionary with him. He took me certain gold, I wot it well. --Chaucer. (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four. 2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. --Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. --1 Tim. v. 10. (b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. (d) 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. (e) 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. You take me right. --Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. --Wake. [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. --Tate. (f) 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. I take thee at thy word. --Rowe. Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. --Dryden. 3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. 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. [Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To be taken aback}, {To take advantage of}, {To take air}, etc. See under {Aback}, {Advantage}, etc. {To take aim}, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim. {To take along}, to carry, lead, or convey. {To take arms}, to commence war or hostilities. {To take away}, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. ''By your own law, I take your life away.'' --Dryden. {To take breath}, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self. {To take care}, to exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. ''Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix. 9. {To take care of}, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee. {To take down}. (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. ''I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down.'' --Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. {To take effect}, {To take fire}. See under {Effect}, and {Fire}. {To take ground to the right} or {To take ground to the left} (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left. {To take heart}, to gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged. {To take heed}, to be careful or cautious. ''Take heed what doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden. {To take heed to}, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways. {To take hold of}, to seize; to fix on. {To take horse}, to mount and ride a horse. {To take in}. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. --Chapman. (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. ''Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.'' --I. Watts. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.] {To take in hand}. See under {Hand}. {To take in vain}, to employ or utter as in an oath. ''Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'' --Ex. xx. 7. {To take issue}. See under {Issue}. {To take leave}. See {Leave}, noun, 2. {To take a newspaper}, {magazine}, or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. {To take notice}, to observe, or to observe with particular attention. {To take notice of}. See under {Notice}. {To take oath}, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner. {To take on}, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. {To take one's own course}, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice. {To take order for}. See under {Order}. {To take order with}, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] --Bacon. {To take orders}. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See {Order}, noun, 10. {To take out}. (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth. (c) To produce for