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take

How to sign: 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";

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Similiar / Same: necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask

Within this category: claim, cost, cry out for, draw, govern, imply

take

How to sign: take somebody somewhere
"We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace";

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Similiar / Same: lead, guide, direct, conduct

Within this category: beacon, hand, mislead, usher

take

How to sign: get into one's hands, take physically
"Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please";

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See also: take away, discerp, gather in, carry away, bear away, bear off, scoop up, lift out, scoop, tackle, scoop out, carry off, dismember, take apart, undertake, take on, take in, take in, take up

Similiar / Same: get hold of

Within this category: seize, seize

take

How to sign: take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
"Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case";

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Similiar / Same: look at, consider, deal

Categories: consider, consider, consider, think, think about

Within this category: abstract, contemplate, dally, warm to

take

How to sign: 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";

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Similiar / Same: choose, select, pick out

Categories: decide, determine, make up one's mind

Within this category: adopt, assign, cream off, cull out, dial, draw, elect, elect, empanel, excerpt, field, nominate, pick, plump, screen, side, sieve, sieve out, single out, specify, think of, vote, vote in

take

How to sign: 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";

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Similiar / Same: aim, take aim, train, direct

Categories: position

Within this category: charge, draw a bead on, hold, level, swing, target, turn

take

How to sign: the income arising from land or other property
"the average return was about 5%";

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Similiar / Same: proceeds, takings, yield, payoff, return, issue

Categories: income

Within this category: economic rent, payback

take

How to sign: to succeed at becoming permanent (usually used in the negative sense)
"they tried to set up a new democracy in the war-torn nation, but it didn't take";

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take

How to sign: 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";

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See also: bring forward, lower, take down, let down, lift, bring down, raise, bring on, bring on, elevate, get down, land, get up, put down, bring down, bring up, advance, produce, bring out, produce, bring out

Similiar / Same: bring, convey

Categories: carry, transport

Within this category: conduct, ferry, fetch, land, return, transit, tube, whisk

take

How to sign: be a student of a certain subject
"She is reading for the bar exam";

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Similiar / Same: learn, study, read

Within this category: audit, drill, train

take

How to sign: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
"He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill";

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Similiar / Same: contract, get

Categories: come down, sicken

Within this category: catch

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