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All Words Glossary
noun
- An act of taking.
- Something that is taken.
- A profit or reward.
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He wants half of the if he helps with the job.
- An interpretation or view.
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What"s your on this issue, Fred?
- (film) An attempt to record a scene.
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It"s a .
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Act seven, scene three, two.
- (rugby) A catch.
- (acting) A facial gesture in response to an event.
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I did a when I saw the new car in the driveway.
- (cricket) a catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper
verb ( takes, taking, took, taken)
- To grasp with the hands.
- To grab and move to oneself.
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I"ll that plate off the table.
- To get into one's possession.
- (military) To gain a position by force.
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After a bloody battle, they were able to the city.
- To have sex with forcefully, possibly without consent.
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The rapist took his victims in dark alleys.
- To carry, particularly to a particular destination.
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I'll the plate with me.
- To choose.
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I'll the blue plates.
- To support or carry without failing or breaking.
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That truck bed will only two tons.
- To endure or cope with.
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I can the noise, but I can't take the smell.
- (baseball) To not swing at a pitch
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He"ll probably this one.
- To ingest medicine, drugs, etc.
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I aspirin every day to thin my blood.
- (italbrac, Usually with "for") To assume or interpret to be.
- Do you me for a fool?
- I it you're not going?''
- To enroll (in a class, or a course of study)
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I plan to math, physics, literature and flower arrangment this semester.
- To participate in, undergo (a test or exam).
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Aren't you supposed to your math final today?
- (climbing) To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively.
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Take.
- To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)
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Don't try to that guy. He's bigger than you.
- To stick, persist, thrive or remain.
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I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't .
- (cricket) To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (impersonal) To require.
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Looks like it's gonna a taller person to get that down.
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It takes a village to raise a child.
- (transitive) To require.
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You'll need to your textbook with you to every class.
- To last an amount of time.
- I estimate the trip will about ten minutes.
noun
- A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object.
verb ( thins, thinning, thinned)
- To make, or to become thin or thinner
- To dilute
adjective ( thinner, thinnest)
- Slim, narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually carrying little fat.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
- Scarce.
- Overly strict.
- (sports) A poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
noun
- a slope or inclination (uncountable)
- a joust (countable)
verb
- to slope or incline (something); to slant
- (jousting) to charge (at someone) with a lance
- to forge (something) with a tilt hammer
- (poker) to play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck)
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noun
- (photography) an exposure obtained by leaving the shutter open for a period greater than a fraction of a second; an image so obtained
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