1.
If you take something down, you reach up and get it from a high place such as a shelf.
Alberg took the portrait down from the wall...
Gil rose and went to his bookcase and took down a volume.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
2.
If you ~ a structure, you remove each piece of it.
The Canadian army took down the barricades erected by the Indians...
They put up the bird table, but it got in everyone else’s way so Les tried to take it down.
? put up
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
3.
If you ~ a piece of information or a statement, you write it down.
We’ve been trying to get back to you, Tom, but we think we took your number down incorrectly...
I took down his comments in shorthand.
= write down
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)