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Take out   /teɪk aʊt/   Listen
Take out

verb
1.
Cause to leave.  Synonyms: move out, remove.
2.
Remove from its packing.  Synonym: unpack.
3.
Take out or remove.  Synonym: take away.
4.
Obtain by legal or official process.  "Take out a patent"
5.
Make a date.  Synonyms: ask out, invite out.
6.
Remove something from a container or an enclosed space.
7.
Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home.  Synonym: buy food.
8.
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source).  Synonyms: draw, draw off, withdraw.  "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"
9.
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.  Synonyms: draw, get out, pull, pull out.  "Pull out a gun" , "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
10.
Take liquid out of a container or well.  Synonym: draw.
11.
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.  Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull, pull out, pull up.  "Extract a bad tooth" , "Take out a splinter" , "Extract information from the telegram"
12.
Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food.  Synonym: take away.
13.
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.  Synonyms: excerpt, extract.
14.
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.  Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit.  "Leave off the top piece"





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"Take out" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed Mr. Gwynn, a gleam in the piscatorial eye, "if you please, sir, before I leave for Europe have I your permission to take out my first papers and declare my intention to become a citizen ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... to have to choose between going in the afternoon and not going at all. Why, sure, it's finer at night. Lots finer. You know that kind of a light the peanut-roaster man has got down by the post-office. Burns that kind of stuff they use to take out grease-spots. Ye-ah. Gasoline. Well, at the circus at night, they don't have just one light like that, but bunches and bunches of them on the tentpoles. No, silly! Of course not. Of course they don't set the tent afire. But say! What if they did, ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood
... Iowa and Missouri. Yet, in the face of these known facts, we continue to treat our coal as though there could never be an end of it. The established coal-mining practice at the present date does not take out more than one-half the coal, leaving the less easily mined or lower grade material to be made permanently inaccessible by the caving in of the abandoned workings. The loss to the Nation from this form of ...
— The Fight For Conservation • Gifford Pinchot
... sure enough the pocket-book was always there. He added, that the said Hardie's face wore an expression which he had seen more than once when respectable parties went in for felony: and altogether thought they might now take out a warrant and proceed ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... and Miss Chisholm and Lady Dorothy went out to Pervyse a few days ago to make soup, etc., for Belgians in the trenches. They live in the cellar of a house which has been blown inside out by guns, and take out buckets of soup to men on outpost duty. Not a glimpse of fire is allowed on the outposts. Fortunately the weather has been milder lately, but soaking wet. Our three ladies walk about the trenches at night, and I come ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan


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