v. t.
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.
v. t.
To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
v. t.
To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
v. t.
To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
v. t.
In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
v. t.
To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
v. t.
To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
v. t.
Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
n.
That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
n.
The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
n.
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.