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Sounds | tey'k |
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Rhymes | ache, awake, backache, and 56 more rhymes in eyk at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The income arising from land or other property. |
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Synonyms | return, issue, proceeds, takings, yield, payoff |
Narrower | economic rent, rent; payback |
Broader | income |
Verbs | take |
Meaning | The act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption. |
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Narrower | retake |
Broader | filming, cinematography, motion-picture photography |
Verbs | take |
Meaning | Carry out. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance" |
Broader | act, move |
Meaning | As of time or space. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Model | They take a long time |
Synonyms | occupy, use up |
Narrower | be |
Broader | use, expend |
Similar to | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out |
Meaning | Take somebody somewhere. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "can you take me to the main entrance?" |
Synonyms | lead, direct, conduct, guide |
Narrower | beacon; hand; mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray; usher, show |
Meaning | Get into one's hands, take physically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | The children take the ball |
Examples | "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please" |
Synonyms | get hold of |
Narrower | seize, prehend, clutch; seize |
See also | take on; take in; take in; take away; take up; take apart |
Nouns | taking |
Meaning | Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | assume, acquire, adopt, take on |
Narrower | re-assume |
Broader | change |
Meaning | Interpret something in a certain way. Convey a particular meaning or impression. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" |
Synonyms | read |
Narrower | misread, misinterpret |
Broader | interpret, construe, see |
Similar to | read; read |
Meaning | Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Model | They take the food to the people; They take the people the food |
Examples | "Take these letters to the boss" |
Synonyms | bring, convey |
Entails | come, come up |
Narrower | fetch; transit; ferry; return, take back, bring back; tube; whisk; conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel; land |
Broader | transport, carry |
Similar to | bring, get, convey, fetch; bring |
Meaning | Take into one's possession. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Examples | "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
Narrower | adopt, take in; take away; take back, repossess; collect, take in; impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize; sequester; pocket; bear, take over, accept, assume; snap up, snaffle, grab; recall, call in, call back, withdraw; deprive, strip, divest; unburden |
Contrary | give |
See also | take back; take in; take out |
Meaning | Require as useful, just, or proper. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "It takes nerve to do what she did" |
Synonyms | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, involve, call for, demand |
Narrower | claim, take, exact; govern; draw; cost; cry out for, cry for; imply, involve |
Contrary | obviate, rid of, eliminate |
Similar to | claim, take, exact |
Meaning | Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They take him to write the letter |
Examples | "Take any one of these cards" |
Synonyms | choose, select, pick out |
Entailed by | buy, purchase |
Narrower | empanel, impanel, panel; field; sieve, sift; draw; dial; plump, go; pick; elect; excerpt, extract, take out; cull out; cream off, skim off; sieve out, pick over; assign, specify, set apart; single out; think of; specify, set, determine, fix, limit; adopt, follow, espouse; screen, screen out, sieve, sort; vote in; elect; nominate, propose; vote; side, go with |
Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine |
Meaning | Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The men take the boat |
Examples | "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark" |
Broader | use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ |
Meaning | Receive willingly something given or offered. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Synonyms | accept, have |
Narrower | accept, admit, take, take on; welcome; honor, honour; adopt, borrow, take over, take up |
Broader | get, acquire |
Contrary | refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline |
Similar to | receive, have |
See also | take in; take over; take over; take up |
Nouns | taker |
Meaning | Assume, as of positions or roles. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | fill |
Broader | work, do work |
Similar to | assume, take, strike, take up |
Meaning | Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Take the case of China" |
Synonyms | consider, deal, look at |
Narrower | contemplate; dally, trifle, play; abstract; warm to |
Broader | think about |
Meaning | Experience or feel or submit to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" |
Broader | experience, receive, have, get, undergo |
Similar to | take, undergo, submit |
Meaning | Make a film or photograph of something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | Sam cannot take Sue |
Examples | "take a scene" |
Synonyms | film, shoot |
Category | movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick |
Narrower | reshoot |
Broader | record, enter, put down |
Similar to | photograph, snap, shoot |
Nouns | take |
Meaning | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
Model | They want to take the doors |
Examples | "take the gun from your pocket" |
Synonyms | remove, take away, withdraw |
Entailed by | dust; dig, dig out |
Narrower | epilate, depilate; harvest; tip; stem; extirpate; enucleate; exenterate; enucleate; decorticate; bail; strip, undress, divest, disinvest; ablate; clean, pick; clean; winnow; unbrace; pick; clear, clear up; muck; lift; lift; lift; tear away, tear off; take off; take away, take out; pit, stone; seed; unhinge; shuck; hull; crumb; chip away, chip away at; burl; knock out; scavenge, clean; hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise; degas; husk, shell; bur, burr; clear off, clear away; flick; strip, dismantle; strip; clear; defang; bone, debone; disembowel, eviscerate, draw; shell; shuck; tusk, detusk; dehorn; scalp; weed; condense; bail out, bale out; leach, strip; decalcify; detoxify, detoxicate; de-ionate; de-iodinate; decarbonize, decarbonise, decarburize, decarburise, decoke; delouse; ream; brush; wash, wash out, wash off, wash away; desorb; pull; demineralize, demineralise; eliminate; expectorate, clear out, drive out; defuse; dredge; wear away, wear off; amputate, cut off; resect, eviscerate; skim, skim off, cream off, cream; strip; strip; scale, descale; circumcise; undock; dig, delve, cut into, turn over; excavate, dig, hollow; scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up; extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out; take out; unstring; string; wipe off, wipe away; take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry off; unveil; unpack, take out; unburden, disburden; empty; discharge; unsaddle, offsaddle; shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop; dislodge, free; clean; aspirate, draw in, suck in; delete, cancel; ladle, lade, laden; spoon; gut; head; draw off, draw away, pull off; clean, strip; draw, take out; draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out; leach; draw; withdraw, draw, take out, draw off |
See also | take off |
Meaning | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They take the cake with sugar |
Examples | "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
Synonyms | consume, ingest, take in, have |
Entailed by | board; digest; quench, slake, allay, assuage |
Narrower | hit; cannibalize, cannibalise; use, habituate; eat; eat; drink, imbibe; drink, booze, fuddle; partake, touch; feed, eat; satiate, sate, replete, fill; sample, try, try out, taste; take in, sop up, suck in, take up; smoke; drug, do drugs; swallow, get down; sup |
Contrary | abstain, refrain, desist |
See also | take up |
Meaning | Accept or undergo, often unwillingly. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | undergo, submit |
Narrower | test |
Broader | digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up |
Similar to | take |
Nouns | taker |
Meaning | Make use of or accept for some purpose. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" |
Synonyms | accept |
Narrower | co-opt |
Meaning | Take by force. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Model | They take the hill |
Narrower | rescue; scale; extort; assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate; recapture, retake; relieve; steal; plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray; sack, plunder |
Meaning | Occupy or take on. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | The men take the horses across the field |
Synonyms | assume, strike, take up |
Broader | move |
Similar to | fill, take |
Meaning | Admit into a group or community. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Model | Sam cannot take Sue |
Synonyms | accept, admit, take on |
Narrower | profess |
Broader | accept, take, have |
Similar to | admit, let in, include |
Meaning | ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors" |
Broader | receive, get, find, obtain, incur |
Meaning | Be a student of a certain subject. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | learn, study, read |
Narrower | audit; train, prepare; drill, exercise, practice, practise |
Meaning | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | claim, exact |
Broader | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand |
Similar to | necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand |
Meaning | Head into a specified direction. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | make |
Broader | head |
Meaning | Aim or direct at. As of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "Take a swipe at one's opponent" |
Synonyms | aim, train, take aim, direct |
Entailed by | overshoot; hit |
Narrower | target, aim, place, direct, point; draw a bead on; hold; turn; swing; charge, level, point; level |
Broader | position |
Meaning | Be seized or affected in a specified way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s Adjective |
Examples | "take sick"; "be taken drunk" |
Broader | become, go, get |
Meaning | Have with oneself. Have on one's person. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They take more bread |
Examples | "She always takes an umbrella" |
Synonyms | carry, pack |
Broader | have, feature |
Similar to | carry |
Meaning | Engage for service under a term of contract. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Examples | "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" |
Synonyms | lease, rent, hire, charter, engage |
Broader | get, acquire |
Meaning | Receive or obtain by regular payment. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "We take the Times every day" |
Synonyms | subscribe, subscribe to |
Broader | buy, purchase |
Nouns | take |
Meaning | Buy, select. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They take the newspapers |
Examples | "I'll take a pound of that sausage" |
Category | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism |
Broader | buy, purchase |
See also | take out |
Meaning | To get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "take shelter from the storm" |
Meaning | Have sex with. Archaic use. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" |
Synonyms | have |
Broader | roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk |
Meaning | Lay claim to. As of an idea. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | claim |
Broader | affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear |
Contrary | disclaim |
Similar to | claim, lay claim, arrogate |
Meaning | Be designed to hold or take. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "This surface will not take the dye" |
Synonyms | accept |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Be capable of holding or containing. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "This box won't take all the items" |
Synonyms | contain, hold |
Broader | be |
Similar to | hold, bear, carry, contain; accommodate, hold, admit |
Meaning | Develop a habit. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Meaning | Proceed along in a vehicle. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | drive |
Category | driving |
Broader | traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across |
Similar to | drive, motor; drive; drive |
Meaning | Obtain by winning. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Winner takes all" |
Broader | win |
Meaning | Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | contract, get |
Narrower | catch |
Broader | sicken, come down |
Similar to | catch |