Taking: alternatives and connections

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

To take or seize; to take hold of.

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.

To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…

To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.

To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the…

To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done,…

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.

Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favora…

To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…

any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their l…

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., li…

In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.

The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversat…

An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; a…