What does take mean?

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Verb

(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

(transitive) To seize or capture.
(transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
(transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
(transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
(transitive) To exact.
(transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

(transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

(transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
(transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc).
(transitive) To receive into some relationship.
(transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).

(transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
(transitive, of a path, road, etc) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
(transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
(transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
(reflexive) To go.

(transitive) To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
(transitive) To partake of (food or drink); to consume.

(transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
(transitive) To experience or feel.
(transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
(transitive) To participate in.
(transitive) To suffer, to endure (a hardship or damage).

(transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
(transitive) To regard in a specified way.
(transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
(transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
(transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
(transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
(transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
(transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
(transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
(transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
(transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
(transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
(transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
(transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
(transitive) To require.
(transitive) To proceed to fill.
(transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
(transitive) To avail oneself of.
(transitive) To perform, to do.
(transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).

(transitive) To bind oneself by.
(transitive) To move into.
(transitive) To go into, through, or along.
(transitive) To have or take recourse to.
(transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
(transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
(transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
(transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
(transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
(transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
(transitive) To deal with.
(transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
(transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
(grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
(intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
(intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.

(intransitive, of ink, dye, etc) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
(intransitive, of a plant, etc) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
(intransitive, of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
(intransitive, possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
(intransitive) To have the intended effect.

(intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
(intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
(intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
(transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
(transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Noun

Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.

An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
(film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
(music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
(medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
(rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
(printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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