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TAKE OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take out or remove
Example:
take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
Synonyms:
take away; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
bus (remove used dishes from the table in restaurants)
kill; obliterate; wipe out (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase)
cross off; cross out; mark; strike off; strike out (remove from a list)
delete; erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)
cart away; cart off; haul away; haul off (take away by means of a vehicle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted
Example:
Leave off the top piece
Synonyms:
except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
elide (leave or strike out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
Example:
We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
Synonyms:
take away; take out
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
takeout (prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
Example:
extract information from the telegram
Synonyms:
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
squeeze out; wring out (extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)
demodulate (extract information from a modulated carrier wave)
thread (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Remove something from a container or an enclosed space
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
pulp (remove the pulp from, as from a fruit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Remove from its packing
Example:
unpack the presents
Synonyms:
take out; unpack
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
bring out; get out (take out of a container or enclosed space)
unbox (remove from a box)
break out (take from stowage in preparation for use)
uncrate (remove from the crate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 8
Meaning:
Take liquid out of a container or well
Example:
She drew water from the barrel
Synonyms:
draw; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)
draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))
draw (allow a draft)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
deglycerolise; deglycerolize (remove from glycerol)
rack (draw off from the lees)
suck (draw something in by or as if by a vacuum)
tap (draw (liquor) from a tap)
sluice (draw through a sluice)
siphon; siphon off; syphon (convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon)
pump (draw or pour with a pump)
milk (take milk from female mammals)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 9
Meaning:
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
Example:
The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
Synonyms:
draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
pull (take away)
draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)
draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
unsheathe (draw from a sheath or scabbard)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 10
Meaning:
Obtain by legal or official process
Example:
take out a patent
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 11
Meaning:
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
Example:
The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank
Synonyms:
draw; draw off; take out; withdraw
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Verb group:
draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
check out; cheque (withdraw money by writing a check)
dip (take a small amount from)
divert; hive off (withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions)
overdraw (draw more money from than is available)
tap (draw from or dip into to get something)
disinvest; divest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 12
Meaning:
Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
Synonyms:
buy food; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They take out more bread
Sense 13
Meaning:
Cause to leave
Example:
The teacher took the children out of the classroom
Synonyms:
move out; remove; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Cause:
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):
clear (remove (people) from a building)
call in (take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player)
estrange (remove from customary environment or associations)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 14
Meaning:
Make a date
Example:
He asekd me to a dance
Synonyms:
ask; ask out; invite out; take out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):
ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
You must open the middle drawer of my toilet-table and take out a little phial and a little glass you will find there,—quick!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yes and no. I want to operate, but not as you think. Let me tell you now, but not a word to another. I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I never knew my mother afterwards to give an opinion on any matter, without first appealing to Miss Murdstone, or without having first ascertained by some sure means, what Miss Murdstone's opinion was; and I never saw Miss Murdstone, when out of temper (she was infirm that way), move her hand towards her bag as if she were going to take out the keys and offer to resign them to my mother, without seeing that my mother was in a terrible fright.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Go to my dressing-case, open it, and take out a letter you will see there.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I observed but two points in planning my departure—speed, secrecy: to secure these, I had to leave behind me everything I possessed except a small parcel; which, in my hurry and trouble of mind, I forgot to take out of the coach that brought me to Whitcross.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jane (he turned to me for the first time since his re-entrance), take this key: go down into my bedroom, and walk straight forward into my dressing-room: open the top drawer of the wardrobe and take out a clean shirt and neck-handkerchief: bring them here; and be nimble.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
