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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. Took (t[oo^]k); p. p. Taken
     (t[=a]k'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin to
     Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain
     origin.]
     1. 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. Hence, specifically: 
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        (a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
            the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
            to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
            prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
            also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
            to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
            like.
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                  This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                    27.
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                  Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                  Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                    --Pope.
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                  They that come abroad after these showers are
                  commonly taken with sickness.     --Bacon.
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                  There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                  And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
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        (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
            captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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                  Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                    --Prov. vi.
                                                    25.
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                  Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                  that he had no patience.          --Wake.
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                  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 me more than all the outshining
                  loveliness of her companions.     --Moore.
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        (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
            have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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                  Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                  son. And Jonathan was taken.      --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                    42.
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                  The violence of storming is the course which God
                  is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                  sinners.                          --Hammond.
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        (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
            require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
            takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
            car.
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                  This man always takes time . . . before he
                  passes his judgments.             --I. Watts.
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        (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
            picture; as, to take a picture of a person.
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                  Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                    --Dryden.
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        (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
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                  The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                  forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                  from this consideration of the most lasting
                  happiness and misery.             --Tillotson.
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        (g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
            to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
            to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
            revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
            resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
            following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
            to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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        (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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        (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
            over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
            dictionary with him.
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                  He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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        (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
            to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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     2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
        endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: 
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        (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
            refuse or reject; to admit.
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                  Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                  murderer.                         --Num. xxxv.
                                                    31.
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                  Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                  threescore.                       --1 Tim. v.
                                                    10.
            [1913 Webster]
        (b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
            partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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        (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
            clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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        (d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
            to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
            take an affront from no man.
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        (e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
            dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
            to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
            to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
            to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
            motive; to take men for spies.
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                  You take me right.                --Bacon.
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                  Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                  else but the science love of God and our
                  neighbor.                         --Wake.
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                  [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                  was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
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                  You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                    --Tate.
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        (f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
            to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
            -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
            shape.
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                  I take thee at thy word.          --Rowe.
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                  Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                  Not take the mold.                --Dryden.
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     3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
        take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
        took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
        exc. Slang or Dial.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
        etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
  
     To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
     To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
     To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
  
     To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
        of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
        of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.''
        --Dryden.
  
     To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
        or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
     To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
        solicitous. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix.
        9.
  
     To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
        for; to superintend or oversee.
  
     To take down.
        (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
            place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
            to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
            pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be
            impudent yet, that I was not taken down.''
            --Goldsmith.
        (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
        (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
            house or a scaffold.
        (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
            words at the time he utters them.
  
     To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
        Fire.
  
     To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left
        (Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
        as troops, to the right or left.
  
     To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
        encouraged.
  
     To take heed, to be careful or cautious. ``Take heed what
        doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden.
  
     To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
        ways.
  
     To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
  
     To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
  
     To take in.
        (a) To inclose; to fence.
        (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
        (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
            or furl; as, to take in sail.
        (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
            [Colloq.]
        (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
            water.
        (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
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                  For now Troy's broad-wayed town
                  He shall take in.                 --Chapman.
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        (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some
            bright genius can take in a long train of
            propositions.'' --I. Watts.
        (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
            newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
     To take in hand. See under Hand.
  
     To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. ``Thou
        shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.''
        --Ex. xx. 7.
  
     To take issue. See under Issue.
  
     To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
  
     To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
        regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
     To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
        attention.
  
     To take notice of. See under Notice.
  
     To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
        manner.
  
     To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
        on a character or responsibility.
  
     To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
        the measures of one's own choice.
  
     To take order for. See under Order.
  
     To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
        --Bacon.
  
     To take orders.
        (a) To receive directions or commands.
        (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
            Order, n., 10.
  
     To take out.
        (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
        (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
            to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
        (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
  
     To take up.
        (a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
        (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
            amount; to take up money at the bank.
        (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
            1.
        (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
            replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
            (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
        (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
            up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
        (f) To take permanently. ``Arnobius asserts that men of
            the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the
            Christian religion.'' --Addison.
        (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
            to take up vagabonds.
        (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
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                  The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
                                                    --Bacon.
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        (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
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                  One of his relations took him up roundly.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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        (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
            continuous succession.
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                  Soon as the evening shades prevail,
                  The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
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        (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
            manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
            to take up current opinions. ``They take up our old
            trade of conquering.'' --Dryden.
        (m) To comprise; to include. ``The noble poem of Palemon
            and Arcite . . . takes up seven years.'' --Dryden.
        (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
            assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
            xxvii. 10.
        (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
            up a contribution. ``Take up commodities upon our
            bills.'' --Shak.
        (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
        (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
            to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
            tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
            thread in sewing.
        (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
            quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.
  
     To take upon one's self.
        (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
            assert that the fact is capable of proof.
        (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
            to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
            one's self a punishment.
  
     To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Effect \Ef*fect"\, n. [L. effectus, fr. efficere, effectum, to
     effect; ex + facere to make: cf. F. effet, formerly also
     spelled effect. See Fact.]
     1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the
        law goes into effect in May.
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              That no compunctious visitings of nature
              Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
              The effect and it.                    --Shak.
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     2. Manifestation; expression; sign.
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              All the large effects
              That troop with majesty.              --Shak.
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     3. In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause;
        the event which follows immediately from an antecedent,
        called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as,
        the effect of luxury.
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              The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of
              the cause.                            --Whewell.
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     4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
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              Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.
                                                    --J. C.
                                                    Shairp.
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              The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely
              nature of the place.                  --W. Irving.
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     5. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance;
        account; as, to speak with effect.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; --
        with to.
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              They spake to her to that effect.     --2 Chron.
                                                    xxxiv. 22.
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     7. The purport; the sum and substance. ``The effect of his
        intent.'' --Chaucer.
  
     8. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere
        appearance.
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              No other in effect than what it seems. --Denham.
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     9. pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to
        embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people
        escaped from the town with their effects.
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     For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement.
  
     In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above.
  
     Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without
     effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like;
        vain; fruitless. ``Making the word of God of none effect
        through your tradition.'' --Mark vii. 13. ``All my study
        be to no effect.'' --Shak.
  
     To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice;
        to push to its results.
  
     To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims.
        --Shak.
  
     Syn: Effect, Consequence, Result.
  
     Usage: These words indicate things which arise out of some
            antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which
            may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that
            which springs directly from something which can
            properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more
            remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere
            sequence, but following out of and following
            indirectly, or in the train of events, something on
            which it truly depends. A result is still more remote
            and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body
            which falls in very different directions. We may
            foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its
            consequences, but can rarely discover its final
            results.
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                  Resolving all events, with their effects
                  And manifold results, into the will
                  And arbitration wise of the Supreme. --Cowper.
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                  Shun the bitter consequence, for know,
                  The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt
                  die.                              --Milton.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Take \Take\, v. t. [imp. Took; p. p. Takend; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Taking.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth.
     t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.]
     1. 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. Hence, specifically:
        (a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
            the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
            to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
            prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship;
            also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
            to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
            like.
  
                  This man was taken of the Jews.   --Acts xxiii.
                                                    27.
  
                  Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
                  Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
                                                    --Pope.
  
                  They that come abroad after these showers are
                  commonly taken with sickness.     --Bacon.
  
                  There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
                  And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
        (b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
            captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  
                  Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
                                                    --Prov. vi.
                                                    25.
  
                  Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
                  that he had no patience.          --Wake.
  
                  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 me more than all the outshining
                  loveliness of her companions.     --Moore.
        (c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
            have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  
                  Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
                  son. And Jonathan was taken.      --1 Sam. xiv.
                                                    42.
  
                  The violence of storming is the course which God
                  is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
                  sinners.                          --Hammond.
        (d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
            require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  
                  This man always takes time . . . before he
                  passes his judgments.             --I. Watts.
        (e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
            picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  
                  Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
                                                    --Dryden.
        (f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
  
                  The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
                  forcible motive to a good life, because taken
                  from this consideration of the most lasting
                  happiness and misery.             --Tillotson.
        (g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
            to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
            to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
            revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
            resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
            following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
            to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
        (h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
        (i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
            over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  
                  He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
                                                    --Chaucer.
        (k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
            to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
  
     2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
        endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
        (a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
            refuse or reject; to admit.
  
                  Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
                  murderer.                         --Num. xxxv.
                                                    31.
  
                  Let not a widow be taken into the number under
                  threescore.                       --1 Tim. v.
                                                    10.
        (b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to
            partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
        (c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
            clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
        (d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
            to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
            take an affront from no man.
        (e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
            dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
            to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
            to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
            to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
            motive; to take men for spies.
  
                  You take me right.                --Bacon.
  
                  Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
                  else but the science love of God and our
                  neighbor.                         --Wake.
  
                  [He] took that for virtue and affection which
                  was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
  
                  You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
                                                    --Tate.
        (f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
            to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
            -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
            shape.
  
                  I take thee at thy word.          --Rowe.
  
                  Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
                  Not take the mold.                --Dryden.
  
     To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
        etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
  
     To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
  
     To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
  
     To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
  
     To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
        of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
        of bishops. ``By your own law, I take your life away.''
        --Dryden.
  
     To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
        or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
  
     To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
        solicitous. ``Doth God take care for oxen?'' --1 Cor. ix.
        9.
  
     To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
        for; to superintend or oversee.
  
     To take down.
        (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
            place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
            to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
            pride, or the proud. ``I never attempted to be
            impudent yet, that I was not taken down.''
            --Goldsmith.
        (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
        (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
            house or a scaffold.
        (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
            words at the time he utters them.
  
     To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
        Fire.
  
     To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to
        extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops,
        to the right or left.
  
     To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
        encouraged.
  
     To take heed, to be careful or cautious. ``Take heed what
        doom against yourself you give.'' --Dryden.
  
     To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
        ways.
  
     To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
  
     To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
  
     To take in.
        (a) To inclose; to fence.
        (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
        (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
            or furl; as, to take in sail.
        (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
            [Colloq.]
        (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
            water.
        (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
  
                  For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take
                  in.                               --Chapman.
        (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some
            bright genius can take in a long train of
            propositions.'' --I. Watts.
        (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
            newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
  
     To take in hand. See under Hand.
  
     To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. ``Thou
        shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.''
        --Ex. xx. 7.
  
     To take issue. See under Issue.
  
     To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
  
     To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
        regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
  
     To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
        attention.
  
     To take notice of. See under Notice.
  
     To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
        manner.
  
     To take off.
        (a) To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove
            from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
            take off one's hat.
        (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a limb.
        (c) To destroy; as, to take off life.
        (d) To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of
            an argument.
        (e) To withdraw; to call or draw away. --Locke.
        (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
        (g) To purchase; to take in trade. ``The Spaniards having
            no commodities that we will take off.'' --Locke.
        (h) To copy; to reproduce. ``Take off all their models in
            wood.'' --Addison.
        (i) To imitate; to mimic; to personate.
        (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
            than preferments can take off. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Effect \Ef*fect"\, n. [L. effectus, fr. efficere, effectum, to
     effect; ex + facere to make: cf. F. effet, formerly also
     spelled effect. See Fact.]
     1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the
        law goes into effect in May.
  
              That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my
              fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and
              it.                                   --Shak.
  
     2. Manifestation; expression; sign.
  
              All the large effects That troop with majesty.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     3. In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause;
        the event which follows immediately from an antecedent,
        called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as,
        the effect of luxury.
  
              The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of
              the cause.                            --Whewell.
  
     4. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
  
              Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.
                                                    --J. C.
                                                    Shairp.
  
              The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely
              nature of the place.                  --W. Irving.
  
     5. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance;
        account; as, to speak with effect.
  
     6. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; --
        with to.
  
              They spake to her to that effect.     --2 Chron.
                                                    xxxiv. 22.
  
     7. The purport; the sum and substance. ``The effect of his
        intent.'' --Chaucer.
  
     8. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere
        appearance.
  
              No other in effect than what it seems. --Denham.
  
     9. pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to
        embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people
        escaped from the town with their effects.
  
     For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement.
  
     In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above.
  
     Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without
     effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like;
        vain; fruitless. ``Making the word of God of none effect
        through your tradition.'' --Mark vii. 13. ``All my study
        be to no effect.'' --Shak.
  
     To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice;
        to push to its results.
  
     To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims.
        --Shak.
  
     Syn: Effect, Consequence, Result.
  
     Usage: These words indicate things which arise out of some
            antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which
            may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that
            which springs directly from something which can
            properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more
            remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere
            sequence, but following out of and following
            indirectly, or in the train of events, something on
            which it truly depends. A result is still more remote
            and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body
            which falls in very different directions. We may
            foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its
            consequences, but can rarely discover its final
            results.
  
                  Resolving all events, with their effects And
                  manifold results, into the will And arbitration
                  wise of the Supreme.              --Cowper.
  
                  Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day
                  thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.
                                                    --Milton.

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  to take effect /tə tˈeɪk ɪfˈɛkt/
  stupiti na snagu

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  to take effect /tə tˈeɪk ɪfˈɛkt/
  1. használ (gyógyszer)
  2. hatást gyakorol
  3. hatása van
  4. életbe lép
  5. megfogamzik
  6. hatást idéz elô
  7. érvénybe lép
  8. hatályba lép
  9. megered (oltás)
  10. hat

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