Results for take

Definition of take:

• part of speech: (verb intransitive)

  To have effect; gain reception; please.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To obtain in almost any manner; to receive; to receive in any disposition of mind; to suppose; to receive in thought; to lay hold of; to seize; to entrap; to swallow; to understand in a particular sense or manner; to delight; to engage; to use or employ; to procure; to turn to; to choose; to go into, as to take the water; to pursue or follow, as a course; to copy or paint; to change with respect of place, as he took out his hand; to hire or rent, as a house; to enter upon, as a campaign; to please; to catch; to be fixed.

• part of speech: (noun)

  The quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch; a quantity, as of copy, by a compositor.

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To receive; seize; capture; catch; choose; use; conduct; convey.