TAKE

(ACCEPT) [verb] [T] [past simple] took, [past participle] taken - to accept; to receive willinglyWe'd like you to take a gift of your choice.I tried to telephone him, but he refused to take my call.This restaurant takes credit cards.Do you take sugar and milk in your tea (= Do you drink tea with sugar and milk in it)?Take this medicine (= Put it into your body by swallowing) three times a day.Keep taking the tablets.This container will take (= has room for) six litres.My car takes five people, but I only have four seat belts.This camera takes (= has room for and uses) two small batteries.My camera takes 35 mm films.It's a girls' school which has started taking boys as well.My roses took (= received) first prize at the flower show.We've stopped taking (= regularly buying) a newspaper.(UK) We took (= rented) a cottage in France last summer.If you'd taken my advice, you wouldn't have lost so much money.I refuse to take any responsibility for what's happened.She can't take criticism."How did he take the news of the accident?" "He took it badly."We're taking the bomb threats very seriously.I just can't take being insulted like that. [+ verb-ing]He continually abuses her, and she just sits there and takes it.She can't take him teasing her. [+ object + verb-ing]If you think I'm going to take that lying down (= accept it without complaining), you're very much mistaken."How do you like your tea?" "I'll take it as it comes (= accept it whatever it is like)."He can't take a joke (= doesn't like people joking about him).I take the/your point (= accept the argument), but I still don't think you should have gone.If you say point taken, it means that you accept what someone has said.You can use take when you want to mention something as a particular example of what you are talking about.I've been very busy recently. Take last week, I had meetings on four evenings.If you take someone or something to be something, or you take them for something, you accept or believe that they are that thing.I took him to be more intelligent than he turned out to be. [+ object + to infinitive](formal) I take the situation to require (= I believe that it requires) prompt action. [+ object + to infinitive]These creatures are generally taken to be descended from primitive fishes. [+ object + to infinitive]In the dark I could have taken him for (= mistakenly believed that he was) your brother.I'm not going to forge his signature for you! What do you take me for? (= You should not believe I could do a thing like that.)If the dress is too small the shop will take it back and refund your money [M]His wife took him back when he left his girlfriend. [M]I can't take it (= deal with anything bad) any more. I've had enough.All right, I'll take it (all) back (= admit that what I said was wrong).You can say if you take my meaning (US and ANZ if you catch my drift) to suggest that there is more information than can be given openly.Let's just say we had 'problems', if you take my meaning.His aunt took him in (= took care of him in her home) when his mother died.Several families take in (= take care of for payment) foreign students.If someone says 'I take it', they think that what they say is likely to be true, even though it is not proved.You'll be staying the night, I take it.I take it (that) you'll be staying the night.So we can take it you've resigned?It won't work, take it from me/take my word for it (= accept what I say).That's my final offer - you can take it or leave it (= accept it as it is or refuse it completely).Take that! is said as someone hits someone else, esp. in humorous films or cartoons.If you won't/don't take no for an answer, you will not allow someone to refuse what you have offered.I've told Steve I'm not interested, but he keeps asking me out - he won't take no for an answer.