take

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To get hold of something and move it, or carry it with you.

   Don't forget to take your umbrella with you.

2. 2
   verb

   To need a particular amount of time, effort, or quality.

   It takes about an hour to get there by bus.

3. 3
   verb

   To choose, buy, or accept something.

   I'll take the blue one, please.

4. 4
   verb

   To do or perform an action.

   We need to take action before it is too late.

5. 5
   verb

   To measure something, such as someone's temperature or pulse.

   The nurse took my blood pressure.

Multiword verbs with take

• take aback Phrasal verb A1

  to surprise someone so strongly that they are briefly unsure how to respond

• take after Prepositional verb A1

  to resemble a family member in appearance or character

• take off Phrasal verb A1

  to remove clothing or footwear from the body

• take over Phrasal verb A1

  to gain control of or responsibility for something

Appears in

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”), from pre-Germanic *deh₁g- (“to touch”), possibly a phonetically altered form of Proto-Indo-European *te-th₂g- (“to touch, take”) (see there for details). Gradually displaced native English nim, from Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”). Cognates Cognate with Scots tak (“to take”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta…

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