Found 4 items, similar to Takes.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: take mengambil
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: take ambil, cokok, mengambil, menjemput
English → English (WordNet) Definition: take take n 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 [also: took, taken] take v 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Take Take \Take\ (t[=a]k), obs. p. p. of Take. Taken. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Take \Take\, v. t. [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: [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii. 27. [1913 Webster] Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. --Pope. [1913 Webster] They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. [1913 Webster] Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. --Prov. vi. 25. [1913 Webster] Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. --Wake. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right. [1913 Webster] Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv. 42. [1913 Webster] The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. --Hammond. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take a picture of a person. [1913 Webster] Beauty alone could beauty take so right. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] He took me certain gold, I wot it well. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four. [1913 Webster] 2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit. [1913 Webster] Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. --Num. xxxv. 31. [1913 Webster] Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. --1 Tim. v. 10. [1913 Webster] (b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine. [1913 Webster] (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] You take me right. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. --Wake. [1913 Webster] [He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South. [1913 Webster] You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. --Tate. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I take thee at thy word. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] (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, n., 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, n., 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 one's self; as, to take out a patent. To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. --Hood. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. “Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion.” --Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The ancients took up experiments upon credit. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate. [1913 Webster] One of his relations took him up roundly. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession. [1913 Webster] Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. “They take up our old trade of conquering.” --Dryden. (m) To comprise; to include. “The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years.” --Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. “Take up commodities upon our bills.” --Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. To take upon one's self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet. [1913 Webster] Take \Take\, v. i. 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster] When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed. [1913 Webster] Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well. [1913 Webster] To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father. To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon. To take on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner. To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. “If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him.” --Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. “Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world.” --Addison. To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] “Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion.” --Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke. To take up with. (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. “In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities.” --I. Watts. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. To take with, to please. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Take \Take\, n. 1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch. [1913 Webster] 2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time. [1913 Webster]