Definition of take

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Take (v. t.) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey..

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Biennial :: Biennial (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
Overtaken :: Overtaken (p. p.) of Overtak.
Windlass :: Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
Spell :: Spell (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman..
Except :: Except (v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Chrysotype :: Chrysotype (n.) A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Look :: Look (v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.
Defalcate :: Defalcate (v. t.) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc..
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.
Presume :: Presume (v. t.) To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose..
Print :: Print (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate..
Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..
Unity :: Unity (n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity..
Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..
Confound :: Confound (v. t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
Precaution :: Precaution (v. t.) To take precaution against.
Presuppose :: Presuppose (v. t.) To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator..
Luncheon :: Luncheon (v. i.) To take luncheon.
Inventory :: Inventory (n.) An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business..
Misinterpretation :: Misinterpretation (n.) The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
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