verb
- Cause to leave.
- usage: "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"
- Remove from its packing.
- usage: "unpack the presents"
- synonyms: unpack
- Take out or remove.
- usage: "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
- synonyms: take away
- Obtain by legal or official process.
- usage: "take out a license"; "take out a patent"
- Make a date.
- usage: "Has he asked you out yet"
- synonyms: ask out, invite out
- Remove something from a container or an enclosed space.
- Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home.
- synonyms: buy food
- Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source. )
- usage: "She drew $2, 000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"
- Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.
- usage: "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- Take liquid out of a container or well.
- usage: "She drew water from the barrel"
- synonyms: draw
- Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.
- usage: "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food.
- usage: "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook"
- synonyms: take away
- Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
- Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
- usage: "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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