verb

 

carry to get and carry something with you when you go somewhere

I always take my mobile phone with me.

 

go to go somewhere with someone, often paying for them or being responsible for them

I took the kids to the park.

 

without permission to remove something without permission

Someone's taken my coat.

 

get hold to get hold of something and move it

He reached across and took the glass from her.

 

accept to accept something

So, are you going to take the job?

 

need If something takes a particular amount of time, or a particular quality, you need that amount of time or that quality in order to be able to do it.

It's taken me three days to get here.

 

medicine to swallow or use medicine

Take two tablets, three times a day.

 

measure to measure something

Have you taken her temperature?

 

clothes to wear a particular size of clothes

I take a size 12 in trousers.

 

space to have enough space for a particular number of people or things

There's six of us and the car only takes five.

 

travel to travel somewhere by using a bus, train, car, etc, or by using a particular road

Are you taking the train to Edinburgh?

 

understand to understand something in a particular way

Whatever I say she'll take it the wrong way.

 

by force to get control of something by force

By morning they had taken the city.