TAKE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take out mean? 

• TAKE OUT (verb)
  The verb TAKE OUT has 14 senses:

1. cause to leave

2. remove from its packing

3. take out or remove

4. obtain by legal or official process

5. make a date

6. remove something from a container or an enclosed space

7. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home

8. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

9. bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover

10. take liquid out of a container or well

11. remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

12. buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food

13. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

14. prevent from being included or considered or accepted

  Familiarity information: TAKE OUT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to leave

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

move out; remove; take out

Context example:

The teacher took the children out of the classroom

Cause:

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

clear (remove (people) from a building)

call in (take a player out of a game in order to exchange for another player)

estrange (remove from customary environment or associations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove from its packing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

take out; unpack

Context example:

unpack the presents

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

bring out; get out (take out of a container or enclosed space)

unbox (remove from a box)

break out (take from stowage in preparation for use)

uncrate (remove from the crate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take out or remove

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

take away; take out

Context example:

take out the chicken after adding the vegetables

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

kill; obliterate; wipe out (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase)

cross off; cross out; mark; strike off; strike out (remove from a list)

delete; erase (wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information)

cart away; cart off; haul away; haul off (take away by means of a vehicle)

bus (remove used dishes from the table in restaurants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Obtain by legal or official process

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

take out a patent

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make a date

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ask; ask out; invite out; take out

Context example:

He asekd me to a dance

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

ask for; bespeak; call for; quest; request (express the need or desire for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Remove something from a container or an enclosed space

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

pulp (remove the pulp from, as from a fruit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

buy food; take out

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

buy; purchase (obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They take out more bread

Sense 8

Meaning:

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw

Context example:

The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

check out; cheque (withdraw money by writing a check)

dip (take a small amount from)

divert; hive off (withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions)

overdraw (draw more money from than is available)

tap (draw from or dip into to get something)

disinvest; divest (reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 9

Meaning:

Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out

Context example:

The mugger pulled a knife on his victim

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

pull (take away)

draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)

draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

unsheathe (draw from a sheath or scabbard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 10

Meaning:

Take liquid out of a container or well

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw; take out

Context example:

She drew water from the barrel

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

draw; draw off; take out; withdraw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

draw (allow a draft)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

deglycerolise; deglycerolize (remove from glycerol)

rack (draw off from the lees)

siphon; siphon off; syphon (convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon)

suck (draw something in by or as if by a vacuum)

tap (draw (liquor) from a tap)

sluice (draw through a sluice)

pump (draw or pour with a pump)

milk (take milk from female mammals)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 11

Meaning:

Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

draw out; extract; pull; pull out; pull up; rip out; take out; tear out

Context example:

extract information from the telegram

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

draw; get out; pull; pull out; take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

squeeze out; wring out (extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing)

demodulate (extract information from a modulated carrier wave)

thread (remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 12

Meaning:

Buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

take away; take out

Context example:

We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

takeout (prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises)

Sense 13

Meaning:

Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

excerpt; extract; take out

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 14

Meaning:

Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

except; exclude; leave off; leave out; omit; take out

Context example:

Leave off the top piece

Hypernyms (to "take out" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take out"):

elide (leave or strike out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Sometimes surgery to take out the thymus gland helps.

(Myasthenia Gravis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Cut open the dead bird, take out its heart and keep it, and you will find a piece of gold under your pillow every morning when you rise.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I am going to take out the licence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the box and fling it in the river.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

How can I, a man not yet thirty, take out with me to India a girl of nineteen, unless she be married to me?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When we came on deck, the men had begun already to take out the arms and powder, yo-ho-ing at their work, while the captain and Mr. Arrow stood by superintending.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he ran.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was reading that everlasting Belsham, and droning away as I always do, for Aunt soon drops off, and then I take out some nice book, and read like fury till she wakes up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Maybe she make fun, too, so I say, 'Let me see thousand dollars.' And that woman, that young woman, all alone on the trail, there in the snow, she take out one thousand dollars, in greenbacks, and she put them in my hand. I look at money, I look at her. What can I say?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had a hammer in his hand, and his mouth was full of little nails, which he was obliged to take out before he could speak.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)