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24 VERB [usu imper] You use take when you are discussing or explaining a particular question, in order to introduce an example or to say how the question is being considered. □ [V n] There's confusion and resentment. Take this office, for example.

25 VERB If you take someone's meaning or point, you understand and accept what they are saying. □ [V n] They've turned sensible, if you take my meaning.

26 VERB If you take someone for something, you believe wrongly that they are that thing. □ [V n + for ] She had taken him for a journalist. □ [V n to-inf] I naturally took him to be the owner of the estate.

27 VERB If you take something from among a number of things, you choose to have or buy it. □ [V n] 'I'll take the grilled tuna,' Mary Ann told the waiter.

28 VERB If you take a road or route, you choose to travel along it. □ [V n prep/adv] From Wrexham centre take the Chester Road to the outskirts of town. □ [V n] The road forked in two directions. He had obviously taken the wrong fork.

29 VERB If you take a car, train, bus, or plane, you use it to go from one place to another. □ [V n] It's the other end of the High Street. We'll take the car, shall we? □ [V n prep/adv] She took the train to New York every weekend.

30 VERB If you take a subject or course at school or university, you choose to study it. □ [V n] Students are allowed to take European history and American history.

31 VERB If you take a test or examination, you do it in order to obtain a qualification. □ [V n] She took her driving test in Greenford.

32 VERB If you take someone for a subject, you give them lessons in that subject. [mainly BRIT ] □ [V n + for ] The teacher who took us for economics was Miss Humphrey.

33 VERB If someone takes drugs, pills, or other medicines, they take them into their body, for example by swallowing them. □ [V n] She's been taking sleeping pills.

34 VERB If you take a note or a letter, you write down something you want to remember or the words that someone says. □ [V n] She sat expressionless, carefully taking notes.

35 VERB If you take a particular measurement, you use special equipment to find out what something measures. □ [V n] If he feels hotter than normal, take his temperature.

36 VERB [no passive] If a place or container takes a particular amount or number, there is enough space for that amount or number. □ [V amount] The place could just about take 2,000 people.

37 VERB If you take a particular size in shoes or clothes, that size fits you. □ [V n] 47 per cent of women in the U.K. take a size 16 or above.

38 N‑COUNT A take is a short piece of action which is filmed in one continuous process for a cinema or television film. □  She couldn't get it right–she never knew the lines and we had to do several takes.

39 N‑SING Someone's take on a particular situation or fact is their attitude to it or their interpretation of it. □ [+ on ] What's your take on the new government? Do you think it can work?

40 PHRASE You can say ' I take it ' to check with someone that what you believe to be the case or what you understand them to mean is in fact the case, or is in fact what they mean. □  I take it you're a friend of the Kellings, Mr Burr.

41 PHRASE You can say ' take it from me ' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you. □  Take it from me–this is the greatest achievement by any Formula One driver ever.