Take from the top

Definition

take 1 /teÇk/ v ( pt took /tƱk/; pp taken /'teÇkǝn/) ၁။ ~ sth/sb (with one); ~ sth (to sb) (က) သယ္သည္။ ေဆာင္သည္။ ေခၚသည္။ ယူသည္။ Don't forget to take your umbrella (with you) when you go. ❍ It's your turn to take the dog for a walk. ❍ She takes her children to school by car. ❍ Take this glass of water (up) to your father. ❍ The thief was taken away in a police van. ❍ I'm taking the children swimming later. ❍ She took him some flowers when she went to see him in hospital. (ခ) ပို႔ေဆာင္သည္။ ေပါက္ေစသည္။ ေဆာင္ယူသည္။ Her energy and talent took her to the top of her profession. ❍ The next chapter takes us (ie the reader) from 1919 to 1933. ❍ The new loan takes the total debt to £100 000. ❍ I'd like to take my argument a stage further. ၂။ ယူသည္။ ဆြဲသည္။ I passed him the rope and he took it. ❍ Free newspapers: please take one. ❍ Would you mind taking (ie holding) the baby for a moment? ❍ Take three eggs and beat them gently. ❍ take sb's hand/take sb by the hand ❍ She took a cigarette from the packet. ❍ He took her in his arms and kissed her. ❍ He took a book down from the top shelf. ❍ She opened the drawer and took out a pair of socks. ၃။ (က) ယူသည္။ လစ္သည္။ ကစ္သည္။ Someone has taken my gloves. ❍ Did the burglars take (ie steal) anything of value? ❍ Someone's taken some money out of/from my bank account. (ခ) ~ sth from sth/out of sth ယူသည္။ ထုတ္သည္။ The scientists are taking water samples from the river. ❍ The loan repayments will be taken out of your bank account. ❍ Today's lesson is taken from St Mark's Gospel. ❍ Part of her article is taken straight (ie copied) from my book on the subject. ❍ The machine takes its name from its inventor. (ဂ) ~ sth from sth (not in the continuous tenses) ႏုတ္သည္။ If you take 5 from 12, you're left with 7. ၄။ ~ sth (from sb) (not usu in the continuous tenses) (သိမ္း၊ ဖမ္း၊ ဆြတ္ စသည္) ယူသည္။ The English army tried to take the town (from the French). ❍ The invaders took many prisoners. ❍ He took my bishop with his queen (ie in a game of CHESS). ❍ Our bull took first prize at the agricultural show. ❍ The company took 15 per cent of the market last year. ❍ The enemy took him prisoner/He was taken prisoner by the enemy. ၅။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ယူသည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ If they offer me the job, I'll take it. ❍ Will you take £2000 for the car (ie sell it for £2000)? ❍ The shop took (ie sold goods worth a total of) £50000 last week. ❍ She was accused of taking bribes. ❍ Does the hotel take traveller's cheques/advance bookings? ❍ Please transfer the call and I'll take it in my office. ❍ Why should I take the blame for somebody else's mistakes? ❍ If you take my advice, you'll have nothing more to do with him. ❍ The workers would never agree to take a cut in wages. ❍ I'd like you to take this bracelet as a gift. ❍ Do you take this woman to be your wife? ၆။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) လက္ခံသည္။ ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ Dr Brown takes some private patients. ❍ The school doesn't take girls (ie only has boys as pupils). ❍ Ask the hotel manager if they take pets. ၇။ (not in the continuous tenses) ဆံ့သည္။ ကန္သည္။ ကာသည္။ ႏိုင္သည္။ The tank takes 12 gallons. ❍ This bus can take 60 passengers. ❍ I don't think the shelf will take any more books. ၈။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ခံရသည္။ ခံသည္။ ႏိုင္သည္။ The shop-front took the full force of the explosion. ❍ Will the ropes be able to take the strain (ie without breaking)? ❍ Let your shoulders take the weight/Take the weight on your shoulders. ❍ He took the blow (ie The blow hit him) on the chest. ၉။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) ခံႏိုင္ရည္ရိွသည္။ သည္းခံသည္။ ခံသည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ She can't take criticism. ❍ I don't think I can take much more of this heat. ❍ I'm not taking any more of your insults! ❍ Tell me the bad news—I can take it. ❍ I find his political views a little hard to take. ၁၀။ သေဘာထားသည္။ တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ ‘How did he take the news of her death?’ ‘He took it surprisingly well (ie He was not too upset by it)’. ❍ These threats are not to be taken lightly. ၁၁။ ~ sth as sth (not in the continuous tenses) နားလည္ သည္။ သေဘာထားသည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ She took what he said as a compliment. ❍ What did you take his comments to mean? ❍ How am I supposed to take that remark? ❍ Taken overall, the project was a success. ၁၂။ ~ sb/sth for sb/sth (not in the continuous tenses) မွတ္သည္။ ထင္သည္။ ယူဆသည္။ Even the experts took the painting for a genuine Van Gogh. ❍ Do you take me for a fool? ❍ I took you to be an honest man. ၁၃။ (not in the continuous tenses) နားလည္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I don't think she took my meaning. ၁၄။ (အိမ္) ငွားရမ္းသည္။ We're taking a cottage in Brittany for a month. ၁၅။ ယူသည္။ I'll take the grey jacket, please. ၁၆။ ( fml ) (သတင္းစာ၊ မဂၢဇင္း) မွန္မွန္ယူသည္။ She takes The Guardian. ၁၇။ စားသည္။ (ေဆး) ေသာက္သည္။ (မူးယစ္ေဆး) သံုးသည္။ The baby isn't old enough to take solid food. ❍ Do you take sugar in your coffee? ❍ The main evening meal is taken around 7 o'clock. ❍ The doctor has given me some pills to take for my cough. ❍ He takes drugs (ie illegal drugs), regularly. ❍ Have you ever taken cocaine? ၁၈။ (no passive; often with it ) (က) (အခ်ိန္) လိုသည္၊ ယူသည္၊ ၾကာသည္။ The journey from the airport to the university takes about an hour and a half. ❍ It took her three hours to mend her bike. ❍ That cut is taking a long time to heal. ❍ It'll take time (ie a long time) (for her) to recover from the illness. ❍ I'll just have a shower before we go out; I won't take long/it won't take (me) long. (ခ) လိုသည္။ It would take a lot of strength/a very strong man to lift that weight. ❍ It only takes one careless driver to cause a serious accident. ❍ It doesn't take much to make her angry. ❍ ( infml ) She didn't take much persuading (ie She was easily persuaded). ၁၉။ (not in the continuous tenses) (…အရြယ္၊ ဆိုက္) ဝတ္သည္။ What size shoes do you take? ❍ He takes a 42-inch chest. ၂၀။ (not in the continuous tenses) (အမ်ဳိးအစား) သံုးသည္။ လိုသည္။ My car takes unleaded petrol. ❍ What type of batteries does this radio take? ၂၁။ ( grammar ) (not in the continuous tenses) (ဝါက်အလိုက္ ႀကိယာတြင္ ကံ၊ ဝိဘတ္) လိုသည္။ The verb ‘eat’ takes a direct object. ❍ The verb ‘rely’ takes the preposition ‘on’. ၂၂။ (စာေမးပြဲ) ေျဖသည္၊ ဝင္သည္။ She takes her finals next summer. ❍ When are you taking your driving test? ၂၃။ ( Brit fml ) ဘြဲ႕ရသည္၊ ယူသည္။ She took a first in English at Leeds University. ၂၄။ (စာေပဘာသာရပ္) သင္သည္၊ ယူသည္။ She plans to take a course in applied linguistics. ❍ The pupils have to choose what subjects they are going to take for GCSE. ၂၅။ မွတ္သည္။ စာရင္းသြင္းသည္။ (ႏႈတ္တိုက္ခ်ေပးသည္ ကို) လိုက္သည္။ The policeman took my name and address. ❍ Did you take notes at the lecture? ❍ My secretary hates taking letters. ၂၆။ ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္သည္။ take a photograph/picture/snapshot of sth/sb ❍ have one's picture taken. ၂၇။ စမ္းသည္။ တိုင္းသည္။ take sb's pulse/temperature/blood pressure ❍ The tailor took my measurements for a new suit. ၂၈။ (မဲ) ခြဲသည္။ Why don't we take a vote on it? ၂၉။ … ႏွင့္သြားသည္။ take the bus/plane/train ❍ I was late so I took a taxi to work. ၃၀။ (… လမ္း)မွသြားသည္။ (… လမ္း)အတိုင္းသြားသည္။ I usually take the M6 when I go to Scotland. ❍ Take the second turning on the right after the station. ၃၁။ (အတားအဆီး၊ လမ္းခ်ဳိး၊ ေကြ႕ စသည္) ေက်ာ္သည္၊ သြားသည္၊ ဝင္သည္။ The horse took the first fence beautifully. ❍ You took that corner much too fast. ၃၂။ (ေဘာလံုး) ကန္ သည္။ take a penalty/free kick/corner/throw-in. ၃၃။ (not usu in the continuous tenses) သေဘာထားသည္။ ခံယူ သည္။ စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္။ ကိုင္တြယ္သည္။ He takes the view that people should be responsible for their own actions. ❍ Parents should take an interest in their children's hobbies. ❍ I took an instant dislike to him. ❍ The government is taking a tough line on drug abuse. ❍ We need to take a different approach to the problem. ၃၄။ ယံုၾကည္သည္။ ေဟာကိန္းထုတ္သည္။ တြက္ထား သည္။ I take Brazil to win the World Cup. ၃၅။ (အေရး) ယူသည္။ The government is taking action/measures/steps to combat drug abuse. ၃၆။ (usu imperative) … ကိုၾကည့္ပါ။ (စသျဖင့္ ဥပမာျပဳသည္။ ) A lot of women manage to bring up families and go out to work at the same time—take Angela, for example. ၃၇။ (ထိုင္ခံုတြင္) ထိုင္သည္။ Come in, take a seat. ❍ The orchestra are just taking their seats. ၃၈။ ~ sb (for sth) (ေဟာေျပာပြဲ၊ သင္တန္း ပို႔ခ်ေရးတာဝန္) ယူသည္။ Mr Perkins will take the evening service. ❍ The head teacher usually takes us for geography. ၃၉။ စြဲသည္။ The skin graft failed to take. ❍ The dye won't take (ie will not colour things) in cold water. ၄၀။ ( sl ) စပ္ယွက္သည္။ He took her on the sofa. ၄၁။ (ယွဥ္တြဲထားသည့္ နာမ္ကေဖာ္ျပသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းအလိုက္ ခြင့္ယူသည္၊ ေရခ်ဳိးသည္၊ တစ္ကိုက္ကိုက္သည္၊ ဂိုးထဲကန္သည္ စသည္ လုပ္သည္။ ) take (ie have) a break/a holiday/a nap ❍ take (ie have) a bath/a shower/a wash. ❍ take a look/a walk/a deep breath ❍ take a bite out of a sandwich ❍ take a shot at goal. ❏ be taken up with sth/sb [ PHRV ] အလုပ္မ်ားေနသည္။ အလုပ္႐ႈပ္ေနသည္။ She's very taken up with voluntary work at the moment. ❏ be taken with sb/sth [ PHRV ] သေဘာက်သည္။ We were all very taken with his fiancée. ❍ I think he's rather taken with the idea. ❏ have (got) what it takes [ IDM ] ( infml ) လိုအပ္ေသာ အရည္အခ်င္းႏွင့္ ျပည့္စံုသည္။ ❏ take sb aback [ PHRV ] (esp passive) (စိတ္ပ်က္) အံ့အားသင့္သြားေစသည္။ I was somewhat taken aback by his rudeness. ❍ She seemed taken aback at this suggestion/that I had recognized her. ❏ take after sb [ PHRV ] (no passive) (…ႏွင့္ ႐ုပ္ခ်င္း၊ စ႐ိုက္ခ်င္း) တူသည္။ Your daughter doesn't take after you at all. ❏ take against sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) မုန္းသည္။ မ်က္မုန္း က်ဳိးသည္။ Why have you suddenly taken against her? ❏ take sb/sth apart [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ၁။ (in sport) (ဗန္း) ႏႊာလႊတ္သည္။ Sampras took Courier apart in the third set. ❍ We were simply taken apart by the opposition. ၂။ (ဗန္း) ႏႊာသည္။ ႏႊင္သည္။ Her second novel was taken apart by the critics. ❏ take sth apart [ PHRV ] တစ္စစီျဖဳတ္သည္။ Let's take the radio apart and see what's wrong with it. ❏ take sth/sb as it comes/as they come [ IDM ] ႀကံဳရာ က်ပန္း သေဘာထားသည္။ She takes life as it comes. ❍ I'm not thinking about winning the championship; I just take each game as it comes. ❏ take-away ( US take-out) n (က) စားစရာမ်ားကိုအထုပ္ႏွင့္ ဝယ္ယူသြားႏိုင္ေသာ ဆိုင္။ I'm too tired to cook—let's get something from the Chinese take-away. ❍ a take-away restaurant/meal. (ခ) ထိုဆိုင္မ်ဳိးမွ ဝယ္ယူခဲ့ေသာ စားဖြယ္။ I feel like an Indian take-away tonight. ❏ take sth away [ PHRV ] ၁။ (နာက်င္ကိုက္ခဲမႈ) ေပ်ာက္သည္။ (စိုးရိမ္စိတ္၊ ေသာက) ေျဖေဖ်ာက္သည္။ (စားခ်င္စိတ္) ကုန္သည္။ The doctor has given me some tablets to take away the pain. ❍ Nothing can take away the anguish of losing a child. ❍ Anxiety has taken away his appetite. ၂။ ( US take sth out ) (ဆိုင္မွစားစရာ) ထုပ္ၿပီးယူသည္။ Two fish and chips to take away, please. ❏ take sth/sb away (from sth/sb) [ PHRV ] (မွ)ယူေဆာင္ သည္။ (ထံမွ) ယူငင္သည္။ These books must not be taken away from the library. ❍ The child was taken away from its parents on the recommendation of social workers. ❏ take sth away (from sth) [ PHRV ] ႏုတ္သည္။ If you take 4 away from 10, that leaves 6. ❍ 10 take away 4 is 6. ❏ take (sth) away from sth [ PHRV ] ႏိွမ္သည္။ I don't wish to take (anything) away from his achievements, but he couldn't have done it without our help. ❏ take sth back [ PHRV ] ၁။ (of a shop) ဝယ္ၿပီးပစၥည္း ျပန္လက္ခံသည္။ We only take goods back if the customer can produce the receipt. ၂။ ႏႈတ္လြန္မိသည္ကို ျပန္ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ I take back what I said (about you being selfish). ❏ take sb back (to…) [ PHRV ] ျပန္ေျပာင္းေအာက္ေမ့ေစ သည္။ အမွတ္ရေစသည္။ The smell of the sea took him back to his childhood. ❍ Hearing those old songs takes me back a bit. ❏ take sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျဖဳတ္သည္။ Will you help me take the curtains down? ❍ The notice has now been taken down. ၂။ ၿဖိဳသည္။ ဖ်က္သည္။ take down a tent/fence/Christmas tree ❍ Workmen arrived to take down the scaffolding. ၃။ ခြၽတ္သည္။ take down one's trousers/underpants/skirt ❍ The little boy's mother took down his shorts. ၄။ ေရးမွတ္သည္။ Reporters took down every word of his speech. ❍ Anything you say may be taken down and used as evidence against you. ❏ take-home pay n [U] အရပ္ရပ္ႏုတ္ၿပီး အသားတင္လစာေငြ။ ❏ take sb in [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေနစရာေပးသည္။ ေခၚထားသည္။ ငွားသည္။ She takes in lodgers. ❍ He was homeless, so we took him in. ၂။ (often passive) အယံုသြင္းသည္။ လိွမ့္ သည္။ She took me in completely with her story. ❍ Don't be taken in by his charming manner ; he's completely ruthless. ❏ take sth in [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႐ႉသည္။ Fish take in oxygen through their gills. ၂။ (အစ) သိမ္းသည္။ This dress needs to be taken in at the waist. ၃။ ထည့္သြင္းသည္။ The tour takes in six European capitals. ❍ Her lecture took in all the recent developments in the subject. ၄။ ဝင္ၾကည့္သည္။ I generally take in a show when I'm in New York on business. ၅။ ႐ႈသည္။ ႐ႈစားသည္။ He took in every detail of her appearance. ❍ She took in the scene at a glance. ၆။ သိသည္။ မွတ္သည္။ I hope you're taking in what I'm saying. ❍ Halfway through the chapter I realized I hadn't taken anything in. ❏ take it (that…) [ IDM ] ထင္သည္။ ယူဆသည္။ I take it you won't be coming to Sophie's party. ❍ Are we to take it (from your answer) that you refuse to cooperate? ❏ take it from me (that…) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ငါေျပာတာ မွတ္ထား။ Take it from me—he'll be a millionaire before he's 30. ❏ take it on/upon oneself to do sth [ IDM ] တာဝန္ယူ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ You can't take it upon yourself to make important decisions like that. ❍ He took it upon himself to record their work for future generations. ❏ take it or leave it [ IDM ] ယူခ်င္ယူ၊ မယူခ်င္ေန။ I'm not giving you more than £20 for it—take it or leave it. ❏ take it/a lot out of sb [ IDM ] လက္ဝင္သည္။ This job certainly takes it out of you. ❏ take it/sth out on sb [ PHRV ] (ကုလားမႏိုင္ရခိုင္)မဲသည္။ I know you've had a bad day—but there's no need to take it out on me! ❏ take off [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေလယာဥ္ေျမျပင္မွ) ပ်ံတက္သည္။ (ဉာဏ္) ကြန္႔ျမဴးသည္။ The plane took off an hour late. ❍ ( fig ) Let your imagination take off (ie be completely free). ၂။ တာထြက္သည္။ ခုန္တက္သည္။ The jumper's feet must be behind the line when she takes off. ၃။ ( infml ) လစ္သည္။ ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ When he saw me coming he took off in the opposite direction. ၄။ ( infml ) စြံသည္။ အေရာင္းသြက္သည္။ အဝယ္လိုက္သည္။ The new dictionary has really taken off. ❍ Sales of home fax machines have taken off in recent years. ❏ take-off n ၁။ [C, U] (ေလယာဥ္ ေျမျပင္မွ) ပ်ံတက္ျခင္း။ အတက္။ a smooth take-off ❍ The crash occurred only a minute after take-off. ❍ ( fig ) Our company is poised for take-off (ie great success). ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ကုမၸဏီဟာ စီးပြားေရး ေထာင္တက္လုနီးနီးျဖစ္ေနၿပီ။ ၂။ [C, U] ခုန္အတက္။ တာထြက္။ ၃။ [C] ~ (of sb) ( infml ) (အေျပာင္အျပက္အျဖစ္) တုပသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္း။ She does a brilliant take-off of the boss. ❏ take (oneself) off (to…) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ထြက္သြား သည္။ You can't just take (yourself) off when you feel like it. ❍ She's taken herself off to the country for a quiet weekend. ❏ take sb off [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အေျပာင္အျပက္) တုပသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ ျပသည္။ She takes off the director to perfection. ၂။ (ဇာတ္စင္၊ ကစားကြင္းမွ) ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ The audience were clearly not amused. ‘Take him off!’ they yelled. ❍ The injured player was taken off and replaced by a substitute. Compare SEND SB OFF ❏ take sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အဝတ္အစား) ခြၽတ္သည္။ take off one's coat/hat/shoes/skirt/glasses ❍ The little boy's mother took off his shorts. ၂။ ျဖတ္သည္။ တိသည္။ ရိတ္သည္။ The hairdresser asked me how much he should take off. ❍ I wish you'd take (ie shave) off that beard! ❍ The explosion nearly took off his arm. ၃။ ႐ံု မတင္ေတာ့။ The show was taken off because of poor audiences. ❏ take sb off (sth) [ PHRV ] ကယ္ဆယ္သည္။ The crew were taken off (the wrecked vessel) by helicopter. ❏ take sb off sth [ PHRV ] (often passive) (အမႈကို) ဆက္မကိုင္ခိုင္းေတာ့။ The officer leading the inquiry has been taken off the case. ❏ take sth off (sb) [ PHRV ] (ေခါင္း) ေပါ့သည္။ Employing a nurse will take the burden off his wife. ❍ The defeat of her main rival has taken some of the pressure off (the champion). ❏ take sth off sb [ PHRV ] လုယူလိုက္သည္။ She was playing with a sharp knife, so I took it off her. ❏ take sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဖြင့္သည္။ ျဖဳတ္သည္။ ဖယ္သည္။ take the lid off a jar ❍ take off the doll's head. ❍ Would you mind taking your foot off my hand? ၂။ ထုတ္သည္။ ပယ္သည္။ ဖ်က္သည္။ The next time I saw the list, my name had been taken off (it). ❍ The soup has been taken off the menu. ၃။ ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ Five per cent was added to VAT last year, and this year it's been taken off again. ၄။ နားသည္။ take the day/morning/afternoon off ❍ I'm taking next week off (work). ❏ take sth off sth [ PHRV ] ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ Doctors recommended that the drug should be taken off the market. ❍ The magazine has been taken off the shelves. ❏ take on sth [ PHRV ] (အေရာင္အေသြး၊ မူ၊ ဟန္) ေဆာင္ သည္။ The chameleon can take on the colours of its background. ❍ Her face/eyes took on a hurt-expression. ❍ His voice took on a more serious tone. ❏ take sb on [ PHRV ] ၁။ အလုပ္ခန္႔သည္။ တာဝန္ေပးသည္။ take on new staff ❍ She was taken on as a graduate trainee. ၂။ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ ဖက္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ take sb on at snooker/tennis/chess ❍ Ajax will take on Juventus in this year's European Cup Final. ❍ The rebels took on the entire Roman army. ❏ take sth/sb on [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ take on extra work ❍ She took on greater responsibilities when she was promoted. ❍ I can't take on any new clients at present. ၂။ တင္သည္။ ျဖည့္သည္။ The bus stopped to take on more passengers. ❍ The ship took on more fuel at Freetown. ❏ take sb out [ PHRV ] ေခၚထုတ္သည္။ ျပဳစုသည္။ He wants to take her out but he's too shy to ask. ❍ I took my wife out to dinner/for a meal on her birthday. ❏ take sth/sb out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဖ်က္ဆီးသည္။ သတ္ သည္။ Enemy missiles took out two of our planes. ❏ take sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႏုတ္သည္။ ထုတ္သည္။ She's gone into hospital to have her appendix taken out. ❍ How many teeth did the dentist take out? ၂။ (အသက္ အာမခံစာခ်ဳပ္၊ မူပိုင္ခြင့္ စသည္) တရားဝင္ရယူခ်ဳပ္ဆိုသည္။ take out an insurance policy/a mortgage/a patent. ၃။ ( US ) = TAKE STH AWAY၂ ❏ take sth out(against sb) [ PHRV ] (ဆင့္စာ၊ ေခၚစာ၊ သမၼန္စာ) ထုတ္သည္။ The police have taken out a summons against the driver of the car involved in the accident. ❏ take sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထုတ္သည္။ Take your hands out of your pockets. ❍ She put her bag on the seat and took out her camera. ၂။ (ဘဏ္မွေငြ)ထုတ္သည္။ How much do you need to take out (of your account)? ၃။ (ေငြ)ႏုတ္ယူသည္၊ ျဖတ္သည္။ Monthly contributions to the pension scheme will be taken out of your salary. ၄။ (အစြန္းအထင္း၊ အမွတ္အသား) ထုတ္သည္။ Cold water should take that stain out of your skirt. ❍ The author had to take out all the references to real people. ❏ take sb out of themselves [ PHRV ] ေမ့ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ေပ်ာက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ A weekend with her family would help to take her out of herself. ❏ take-over n ၁။ (ဦးစီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈ) လႊဲယူျခင္း။ the take-over of DanAir by British Airways ❍ a take-over bid. ၂။ အာဏာသိမ္းျခင္း။ a military take-over ❍ prevent the take-over of the Party by extremists. ❏ take (sth) over [ PHRV ] အာဏာသိမ္းသည္။ The army is threatening to take over if civil unrest continues. ❍ Has the party been taken over by extremists? ❍ ( fig ) His character changes completely when jealousy takes over. မနာလိုစိတ္က လႊမ္းမိုးလိုက္သည့္အခါ သူ႕ပင္ကိုစ႐ိုက္ လံုးဝေျပာင္းလဲသြားေတာ့သည္။ ❏ take sth over [ PHRV ] (လုပ္ငန္းကို) လႊဲယူသည္။ The firm has been taken over by an American conglomerate. ❏ take (sth) over (from sb) [ PHRV ] လႊဲေျပာင္းတာဝန္ယူ သည္။ Peter will take over as managing director when Bill retires. ❍ George is taking over the running of our American operation. ❍ Would you like me to take over (the driving) for a while? ❏ take some/a lot of doing [ IDM ] ( infml ) နည္းနည္း ေနာေနာ အလုပ္မဟုတ္ဘူး။ Did you move all this furniture on your own? That must have taken some doing! ❍ It'll take a lot of doing to read all these reports by Monday. ❏ take sb through sth [ PHRV ] အစအဆံုးရွင္းျပသည္။ The director took us through the play scene by scene. ❍ I still don't understand the contract. Can you take me through it again? ❏ take to … [ PHRV ] ခိုလံႈသည္။ ဝင္ေနသည္။ take to the forest/hills/caves ❍ The crew took to the lifeboats when the ship was torpedoed. ❏ take to sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ အေစးကပ္သည္။ အသားက် သည္။ I didn't take to her husband at all. ❍ He hasn't taken to his new school. ၂။ လိုက္သည္။ အလြန္းသင့္သည္။ She took to tennis as if she'd been playing it all her life. ❏ take to sth/doing sth [ PHRV ] (ဘက္)လွည့္သည္။ စြဲသြားသည္။ I've given up cigarettes and taken to smoking a pipe. ❍ She's taken to drink (ie has started to drink a lot of alcohol). ❏ take up [ PHRV ] (ျပန္) ေကာက္သည္။ This chapter takes up where the last one left off. ❏ take-up n [sing, U] အႏုတ္အသိမ္းပမာဏ။ The company reports a 70 per cent take-up of its share offer. ❏ take up sth [ PHRV ] ေနရာ၊ အခ်ိန္ယူသည္။ This table takes up too much room. ❍ Her time is fully taken up with writing. ❍ I won't take up any more of your time. ❏ take sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဖယ္ပစ္သည္။ ထုတ္ပစ္သည္။ The carpets/floorboards had to be taken up when the house was rewired. ၂။ (အစ) သိမ္းသည္။ This skirt needs taking up. Compare LET STH DOWN ၂ ၃။ စတင္လိုက္စား သည္။ take up gardening/golf/yoga ❍ She has taken up (ie begun to learn to play) the oboe. ၄။ (အလုပ္)ဝင္သည္။ She has taken up a job as a teacher. ❍ She takes up her duties/responsibilities next week. ၅။ ဝင္ဆိုသည္။ ဝိုင္းဆို သည္။ လိုက္ဆိုသည္။ take up a chorus/refrain/song ❍The whole crowd took up the cry: ‘Long live the King!’ ❍ Their protests were later taken up by other groups of workers. ၆။ ျပန္ေကာက္သည္။ She took up the story where John had left off. ❍ I'd like to take up the point you raised earlier. ၇။ ေနရာယူသည္။ Our troops took up defensive positions on high ground overlooking the river. ၈။ လက္ခံသည္။ take up a challenge ❍ She took up his offer of a drink. ❍ Their case was taken up by a famous lawyer. ❏ take up with sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တပူးတြဲတြဲေနသည္။ She's taken up with an unemployed actor. ❏ take sb up on sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျငင္းခ်က္ထုတ္သည္။ ေစာဒကတက္သည္။ I must take you up on that point. ❍ I'd like to take you up on what you said about unemployment. ၂။ ( infml ) စိန္ေခၚသည္၊ ဖိတ္သည္ကို လက္ခံသည္။ ‘I bet I can run faster than you. ’ ‘I'll take you up on that. ’ ❍ Thanks for the invitation—we may take you up on it some time. ❏ take sth up with sb [ PHRV ] ေဆြးေႏြးသည္။ I'm thinking of taking the matter up with my MP. ❏ you can't take sb anywhere [ IDM ] ( infml often joc ) …ေတာ့ လူရာသြင္းလို႔ကို မရဘူး။ His manners are appalling—you can't take him anywhere! take 2 /teÇk/ n ၁။ ( cinema ) ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ိုက္ကြက္တစ္ခု ႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ shoot the scene in a single take. ၂။ (usu sing ) ရေငြ။ The take was shared equally by the two contestants. ❏ on the take [ IDM ] ( sl ) တံစိုးလာဘ္ စားက်င့္ရိွသည္။ They claim that a senior police officer is on the take (from known criminals).

Examples

1. Don’t forget to take an extra pair of shoes.
2. Remember to take a pen with you.
3. [take someone to/into/around something] : What time do you take Amy to school?
4. We took the plants into the greenhouse.
5. The cat had to be taken to the vet.
6. Our guide took us around the cathedral.
7. [take someone/something along] : On long journeys I always take my dog along.
8. [take someone/something for something] : We took my mother for a drive in the country.
9. [take someone/something to do something] : We took him to catch his train.
10. [take someone something] : Take Debbie this cup of coffee
11. will you?
12. [take something to someone] : Let’s take the presents to them tonight.
13. [take someone into/out of/up/through etc something] : My old job took me into the city a lot.
14. The steps took us up to a cave in the cliff.
15. The journey will take you through some beautiful scenery.
16. Her amazing energy has taken her to the top of her profession.
17. Acts that took the country into war
18. [take someone to court] : They’ll take us to court if we don’t pay up soon.
19. [take someone hostage/prisoner] : Bank robbers took the manager hostage overnight.
20. Take a deep breath.
21. Tom took a sip of his drink.
22. I took a quick look at the audience.
23. Let’s take a walk down to the river.
24. [take action/steps/measures] : The government must take action to stop this trade.
25. [take exercise] : You need to take more exercise.
26. Your odd behaviour is going to take a bit of explaining.
27. [take some doing] : It’s going to take some doing to persuade them!
28. Admitting what she had done took a lot of courage.
29. [take something to do/be something] : It takes talent and dedication to become a top dancer.
30. It doesn’t take much to start her crying.
31. [have what it takes] : Do you have what it takes to be a teacher?
32. It’ll take a while to sort this out.
33. Our meeting took much longer than I expected.
34. [take someone ten minutes/two hours etc] : The journey should take us about three days.
35. I’ve decided not to take the job.
36. Sorry
37. we don’t take credit cards.
38. [take (someone’s) advice] : She won’t take my advice.
39. [take it or leave it] : That’s my final price
40. take it or leave it.
41. Please stop! I can’t take it any more.
42. In this job you have to be able to take criticism.
43. [take something lying down] : I’m not going to take defeat lying down.
44. [take someone’s word for it] : You don’t have to take my word for it – ask anyone.
45. [take it from someone] : That’s the truth
46. take it from me.
47. Gladiator took the Oscar for best film.
48. Who took the silver medal?
49. The Labour Party took 45 per cent of the vote.
50. Take as many cakes as you like.
51. Let me take your coats.
52. [take someone by the arm/hand etc] : Her mother took her gently by the shoulders.
53. [take someone in/into your arms] : I’ll take her in my arms and kiss her.
54. [take something in your hands] : I took the baby bird gently in my hands.
55. I took a course in computer programming.
56. Are you taking algebra this year?
57. I took my driving test three times before I passed.
58. She’ll have to take the exam again.
59. [take something away from someone/something] : Take the knife away from her!
60. These drugs should take the pain away.
61. [take something out of something] : Will you take the plates out of the cupboard?
62. Government officials came to take soil samples from the factory site.
63. Who’s taken my pencil?
64. The burglars didn’t seem to have taken much.
65. [take something (away) from something] : What do you get if you take seven from twelve?
66. The scientists will take more readings from the lava flow.
67. They’ve taken several scans of her brain.
68. [take someone’s temperature] : A nurse took his temperature every hour.
69. [take a picture/photograph/photo] : May I take a picture of the two of you?
70. The town was finally taken after a six-week siege.
71. Our new bowler took six wickets in his first match.
72. Her bishop took my queen (=in the game of chess).
73. [take something from something] : The picture on page 5 is taken from their brochure.
74. They played a selection of songs taken from Broadway musicals.
75. The shop takes about £1
76. 000 a week.
77. [take a bus/train/plane/taxi etc] : I usually take the bus to work.
78. Take the A14 as far as Cambridge.
79. We took a trail through the forest.
80. What size batteries does your torch take?
81. Cars that take unleaded petrol
82. The tank takes about twenty gallons of water.
83. Careful – that shelf won’t take all those books.
84. [take milk/sugar/lemon] : Do you take milk in your coffee?
85. [take food] : They are refusing to take food.
86. Take two aspirins and go to bed.
87. No more than four pills should be taken in 24 hours.
88. What size shoes do you take?
89. Which newspaper do you take?
90. Let’s take that last point first.
91. I never throw anything away. Take this car (=use it as an example) – it’s very reliable.
92. [take something as something] : I’ll take his behaviour as an example of what I mean.
93. He tries hard
94. but I just can’t take him seriously.
95. [take something as a compliment/an insult] : She took his remarks as a compliment.
96. [take something as an omen/a sign] : They took the rainbow as a sign from their god.
97. [take something as proof/evidence of something] : We can’t take his silence as proof of his guilt.
98. He took her remark literally.
99. [take someone to mean something] : I took you to mean that you’d be there early.
100. [take something the wrong way] : Don’t take this the wrong way – I’m just trying to help.
101. [take a seat] : Please take a seat.
102. [take power/office] : The new president will take office in January.
103. [take cover] : They’re shooting at us! Quick
104. take cover!
105. [take a risk] : Can you take the risk that you might lose your money?
106. [take (the) credit] : I did all the work
107. but Gill took all the credit.
108. [take control/command] : The rebels are taking control of the city.
109. [take responsibility] : We must encourage fathers to take full responsibility for their children.
110. [take offence] : I’m afraid she took offence at my remarks.
111. [take (an) interest] : He’s never taken much interest in his kids.
112. [take a view/attitude] : I take the view that children should be told the truth.
113. The dye didn’t take properly.
114. I don’t think your cuttings will take in this soil.
115. Who takes the history class on Mondays?
116. [take someone for something] : Mr Churchley will be taking you for English.
117. President Obama vowed to do whatever it takes to thwart international terrorism.
118. My teenage son is very much into gaming
119. but I'll take that over him sexting girls.