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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??(?)/, /b??(?)/, enPR: bâr
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: bâr
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?bi??(r)/, /b??(r)/
• Homophone: bare
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• (Southern US, colloquial) IPA^(key): /b??/
• Homophone: bar (Southern US, colloquial)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *ber?, from Proto-Germanic *berô (compare West Frisian bear, Dutch beer, German Bär, Danish bjørn).

Noun

bear (plural bears)

2. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae.
3. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. [1579]
4. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. [1744]

   Antonym: bull

5. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear). [1970s]
   • 1976 June, CB Magazine, Communications Publication Corporation, Oklahoma City, June 40/3:

     ‘The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,’ reported someone else.

6. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual. [1990]
   • 1990, "Bears, gay men subculture materials" (publication title, Human Sexuality Collection, Collection Level Periodical Record):
   • 2004, Richard Goldstein, Why I'm Not a Bear, in The Advocate, number 913, 27 April 2004, page 72:

     I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

   • 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human sexuality:

     There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.

   Antonym: twink

7. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
8. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
9. (cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
10. (colloquial, US) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

Synonyms

• (large omnivorous mammal): see Thesaurus:bear
• (rough, uncouth person): see Thesaurus:troublemaker
• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: béar

Translations

See bear/translations § Noun.

Verb

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past and past participle beared)

1. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

Adjective

bear (not comparable)

1. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

Translations

See also

• ursine
• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

• Donald A. Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2006), Linguistic history of English, vol. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press ?ISBN

Further reading

• bear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English beren (“carry, bring forth”), from Old English beran (“to carry, bear, bring”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beran?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?éreti, from *b?er- (“to bear, carry”).

Akin to Old High German beran (“carry”), Dutch baren, Norwegian Bokmål bære, Norwegian Nynorsk bera, German gebären, Gothic ???????????????????????? (bairan), Sanskrit ???? (bhárati), Latin ferre, and Ancient Greek ?????? (phérein), Albanian bie (“to bring, to bear”), Russian ????? (brat?, “to take”), Persian ????? (bordan, “to take, to carry”).

Verb

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past bore or (archaic) bare, past participle borne or (see usage notes) born)

1. (chiefly transitive) To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
   1. (transitive, of weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.

   2. (transitive, of garments, pieces of jewellery, etc.) To wear. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   3. (transitive, rarely intransitive, of a woman or female animal) To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).

   4. (transitive) To have or display (a mark or other feature).
      • 1859, Charles Darwin, Origin of Species iv. 88:

        Male stag-beetles often bear wounds from the huge mandibles of other males.

   5. (transitive) To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms. [1400]

   6. (transitive) To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look). [1200]
      • 1930, Essex Chronicle 18 April 9/5:

   7. (transitive) To have (a name, title, or designation). [1225]
      • 2005, Lesley Brown, translator, Plato, Sophist. 234b:

        […] imitations that bear the same name as the things […]

      • 2013, D. Goldberg, Universe in Rearview Mirror iii. 99:

        Heinrich Olbers described the paradox that bears his name in 1823.

   8. (transitive) To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth). [1393]

   9. (transitive, of an investment, loan, etc.) To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms. [1686]

   10. (transitive, of a person or animal) To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).

   11. (transitive) To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
   12. (transitive, rare) To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.

   13. (transitive) To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.

   14. (transitive, of a thing) To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else. [1556]

   15. (transitive) To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.

   16. (transitive) To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).

       • Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.

   17. (reflexive, transitive) To behave or conduct (oneself).
   18. (transitive, rare) To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).

       • Every man should bear rule in his own house.

   19. (intransitive, obsolete) To carry a burden or burdens. [1450]
   20. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct. [1590]
2. To support, sustain, or endure.
   2. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.

   3. (now transitive outside certain set patterns such as 'bear with'; formerly also intransitive) To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
      • 1700, John Dryden, "Meleager and Atalanta", in: The poetical works, vol. 4, William Pickering, 1852, p. 169:

        I cannot, cannot bear; ’tis past , ’tis done; / Perish this impious , this detested son; […]
   4. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).

      The hirer must bear the cost of any repairs.

      • He shall bear their iniquities.

      • 1753, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar: or, the Double Discovery, Tonson and Draper, p. 64:

        What have you gotten there under your arm, Daughter? somewhat, I hope, that will bear your Charges in your Pilgrimage.

   5. (transitive) To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
      • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters

        In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear.

   6. (transitive) To warrant, justify the need for.

3. To support, keep up, or maintain.
   1. (transitive) To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
      • 1732–4, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Longmans, Green & Co, 1879, bear%20him%20company%20pope&hl=de&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 10:

        […] admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.

   2. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
      • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 98:

        […] and he finds the Pleasure, and Credit of bearing a Part in the Conversation, and of having his Reasons sometimes approved and hearken'd to.

4. To press or impinge upon.
   1. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To push, thrust, press.

      • These men therefore bear hard upon the suspected party.

   2. (intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.

   3. (intransitive, military, usually with on or upon) Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
      • 2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron

        Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.

5. To produce, yield, give birth to.
   1. (transitive) To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

   2. (transitive, less commonly intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
      • 1688, John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva

        Betwixt two seasons comes th' auspicious air, / This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

6. (intransitive, originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

7. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Seeming Wise

     Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.

   • April 5, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Fifth Sermon Preached Before King Edward (probably not in original spelling)

     She was […] found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

Usage notes

• The past participle of bear is usually borne:
  • He could not have borne that load.
  • She had borne five children.
  • This is not to be borne!
• However, when bear is used in the passive voice to mean "to be given birth to" literally or figuratively (e.g. be created, be the result of), the form used to form all tenses is born:
  • She was born on May 3.
  • Racism is usually born out of a real or feared loss of power to a minority or a real or feared decrease in relative prosperity compared to that of the minority.
  • Born three years earlier, he was the eldest of his siblings.
  • "The idea to create [the Blue Ridge Parkway] was born in the travail of the Great Depression […] ." (Tim Pegram, The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir, ?ISBN, 2007, page 1)
• Both spellings have been used in the construction born(e) into the world/family and born(e) to someone (as a child). The borne spellings are more frequent in older and religious writings.
  • He was born(e) to Mr. Smith.
  • She was born(e) into the most powerful family in the city.
  • "[M]y father was borne to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, both devout Lutherans." (David Ross, Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds, ?ISBN, 2009)
• In some colloquial speech, beared can be found for both the simple past and the past participle, although it is usually considered nonstandard and avoided in writing. Similarly, bore may be extended to the past participle; the same provisos apply for this form.

Synonyms

• (to put up with something): brook, endure; See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

Translations

References

• bear at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bear in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 3

Noun

bear (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
   • 1800, Tuke, Agric., 119:

     There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.

   • 1818, Marshall, Reports Agric., I. 191:

     Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.

   • 1895, Dixon, Whittingham Vale, 130:

     Two stacks of beare, of xx boules,

   • 1908, Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, page 151:

     […] one wheat stack, one half-stack of corn, and a little hay, all standing in the barnyard; four stacks of bear in the barn, about three bolls of bear lying on the barn floor, two stacks of corn in the barn, […]

   • 1802-1816, Papers on Sutherland Estate Management, published in 1972, Scottish History Society, Publications:

     Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce .

Etymology 4

Middle English bere (“pillowcase”), of obscure origin, but compare Old English hl?or-bera (“cheek-cover”). Possibly cognate to Low German büre, whence German Bühre, which in turn has been compared to French bure.

Noun

bear (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow.
   • 1742, William Ellis, The London and Country Brewer [...] Fourth Edition, page 36:

     And, according to this, one of my Neighbours made a Bag, like a Pillow-bear, of the ordinary six-penny yard Cloth, and boiled his Hops in it half an Hour; then he took them out, and put in another Bag of the like Quantity of fresh Hops, […]

   • 1850, Samuel Tymms, Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St. Edmunds and the Archdeacon of Sudbury, page 116:

     ij payer of schete, ij pelows wt the berys,

   • 1858, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, page 409:

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1905, Emily Wilder Leavitt, Palmer Groups: John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass. and His Descendants ; Gathered and Arranged for Mr. Lowell Mason Palmer of New York, page 24:

     I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup & my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.

   • 1941, Minnie Hite Moody, Long Meadows, page 71:

     […] a man's eyes played him false, sitting him before tables proper with damask and pewter, leading him to fall into beds gracious with small and large feather beds for softness and pillowed luxuriously under pretty checked linen pillow bears.

Anagrams

• Aber, Bare, Baré, Brea, Reba, bare, brae, rabe

Irish

Noun

bear m pl

1. alternative genitive plural of bior (“pointed rod or shaft; spit, spike; point”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "bear" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bera, from Proto-West Germanic *ber?, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???r/

Noun

bear c (plural bearen, diminutive bearke)

1. bear

Further reading

• “bear (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kan? (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?g- (“to touch”). Gradually displaced Middle English nimen ("to take"; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”). Cognate with Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). Compare tackle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?k, IPA^(key): /te?k/, [t?e??k]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken)

1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
   1. (transitive) To seize or capture.

   2. (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

   3. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
   4. (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.

   5. (transitive) To exact.

   6. (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

2. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

   • Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.

   1. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.

   2. (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc).

   3. (transitive) To receive into some relationship.

   4. (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
      • 1832, Lodge v Simonton, in Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 442:

        There was no intestacy, and they did not take under the will as heirs, […]

      • 1913, Conrad v Conrad et al (Court of Appeals of Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1913), in The Southwestern Reporter, volumes 153-154, page 741:

        The only interest they have in the land arises under the will of E. J. Turnham, under which they take one half of the land.

3. (transitive) To remove.
   1. (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.

   2. (transitive) To subtract.

4. (transitive) To have sex with.
   • 2014 July 3, Susan Calman, during Mock the Week, series 13, episode 4:

     And the queen takes the bishop... this is turning out to be quite the royal wedding!

5. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.

6. (transitive) To grasp or grip.

7. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.

   • Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

8. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.

9. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
   1. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.

   2. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.

   3. (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.

   4. (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
      • 2002(?), J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

        They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

   5. (reflexive) To go.
      • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, 2008, page 59

        Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.

10. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.

11. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
    • c. 1677, William Penn, Travels in Holland and Germany

      Almost a year since, R. B. and B. F. took that city, in the way from Frederickstadt to Amsterdam, and gave them a visit.

    • 1827, Wesleyan Methodism in Manchester and its vicinity, volume 1, page 7:

      Mr. Clayton had not been long in his new situation, before Mr. Wasley tendered his personal respects to him; "For in May (1733), he set out for Epsworth, and took Manchster in his way to see him."

12. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
    1. (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.

13. (transitive) To consume.
    1. (transitive) To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.

    2. (transitive) To partake of (food or drink); to consume.

       • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.

14. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
    1. (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.

    2. (transitive) To experience or feel.
    3. (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).

    4. (transitive) To participate in.
    5. (transitive) To suffer, to endure (a hardship or damage).

15. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.

    He had to take it apart to fix it.

    She took down her opponent in two minutes.
16. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
17. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.

18. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
    • 1853, The American Journal of Science and Arts, page 125:

      The author explained the theory of Dove, which, if we took him correctly, was, that the lustre of bodies and particularly the metallic lustre arose from the light coming from the one stratum of the superficial particles of bodies interfering on the eye […]

19. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).

20. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
    • c. 1674-1718, Nicholas Rowe:

      I take thee at thy word.

21. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
22. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
    • c. 1630-1694,, John Tillotson, Sermon V, The Excellency of the Christian Religion:

      And the firm belief of a future Judgment, which shall render to every man according to his deeds, if it be well consider'd, is to a reasonable nature the most forcible motive of all other to a good life; because it is taken from the consideration of the greatest and most lasting happiness and misery that human nature is capable of.

23. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.

24. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).

25. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
26. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.

    • Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death

      Cleombroutus was so taken with this speculation, that […] he had not patience.

    • 1827, Thomas Moore, The Epicurean

      I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, — a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, — which took my fancy more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.

27. (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).

28. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
29. (transitive) To require.
    • 1920, China Monthly Review 15, page 357:

      If the summary of the Tientsin society is accurate, a famine population of more than 14,000,000 is already bad enough. If it takes five dollars to keep one of them alive, […]

    • 2009, Living It Out ?ISBN:

      While it takes courage to come out, the acceptance of parents and other family members can really help the person coming out to accept themselves.
30. (transitive) To proceed to fill.

31. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).

32. (transitive) To avail oneself of.

33. (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.

    • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric.

34. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
    1. (transitive) To assume (a form).

    2. (transitive) To perform (a role).

    3. (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
35. (transitive) To bind oneself by.

36. (transitive) To move into.

37. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.

38. (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.

39. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.

40. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.

41. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).

42. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).

43. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.

44. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.

45. (transitive) To deal with.

46. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.

47. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.

48. (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
    1. (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).

    2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).

49. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.

50. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
    1. (Of ink; dye; etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.

    2. (of a plant, etc) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
       • 1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Text-book of Seamanship, page 179:

         The cradles are supported under their centres by shores, on which the keel takes.

    3. (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
       • 2009, Sheldon Russell, The Yard Dog: A Mystery, page 210:

         At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latch took.

    4. (possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
       • c. 1672-1719, Joseph Addison:

         Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.

    5. To have the intended effect.
       • 1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, page 103:

         "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take."

51. (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.

52. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
53. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
54. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew 22.19:

      Jesus perceaved there wylynes, and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.

55. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• In a few informal sociolects, took is sometimes replaced by the proscribed form taked.
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb take had the form takest, and had tookest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form taketh was used.

Quotations

• 1686, John Dryden, To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew

  Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

• 1973, Albert J. Reiss, The Police and the Public, page 44:

  A lot of officers when they knock off a still will take an axe to the barrels.

Synonyms

• (to get into one's possession): confiscate, seize; see also Thesaurus:take
• (military: to gain a position by force): capture, conquer, seize
• (to receive or accept something): garner, get, obtain, win; see also Thesaurus:receive
• (to remove): knock off, subduct; see also Thesaurus:remove
• (to kill): do in, off, terminate; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (to subtract): take away; see also Thesaurus:subtract
• (to have sex with): have, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to defeat in a fight): beat
• (to grasp with the hands): grab, grasp, grip, nim; see also Thesaurus:grasp
• (to consume): ingest, swallow

Antonyms

• (to accept): give
• (to carry): bring
• drop

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. The or an act of taking.
   • 1999, Impacts of California sea lions and Pacific harbor seals [...] (published by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service), page 32:

     The 1994 Amendments address the incidental take of marine mammals in the course of commercial fishing, not the direct lethal take of pinnipeds for management purposes.

2. Something that is taken; a haul.
   1. Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
      • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, The New York Times, page A22:

        Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

   2. The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
3. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.

4. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.

5. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.

6. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
7. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
8. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
9. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
10. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
    • 1884, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography (page 197)

      A take usually consists of a little more than a stickful of matter, but it varies sometimes, for if a new paragraph occurs it is not overlooked. These takes are carefully numbered, and a list is kept of the compositors who take the several pieces.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
• intake
• outtake
• spit take
• taking, taking
• uptake

References

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, keta, teak

Japanese

Romanization

take

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English turkey, named after Turkey, from Middle English Turkye, from French Turquie, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Toûrkos), from Persian ???? (Turk), from Middle Persian twlk' (Turk), from an Old Turkic autonym, Türk or Türük.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t???e]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?ækej/
• Bender phonemes: {tak?y}

Noun

take

1. a turkey

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /take/

Etymology

From French taquet.

Noun

take

1. power switch.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takende, first-/third-person singular past indicative toke, past participle taken)

1. Alternative form of taken

Verb

take

1. Alternative form of taken: past participle of taken

Etymology 2

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (small nail)”)

Etymology 3

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taked)

1. Alternative form of takken

Etymology 4

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (fee paid to keep swine)”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

take (present tense tek, past tense tok, past participle teke, passive infinitive takast, present participle takande, imperative tak)

1. Alternative form of taka

Pilagá

Verb

take

1. want

   se-take — I want

References

• 2001, Alejandra Vidal, quoted in Subordination in Native South-American Languages