TAKE PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take part mean? 

• TAKE PART (verb)
  The verb TAKE PART has 1 sense:

1. share in something

  Familiarity information: TAKE PART used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE PART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Share in something

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

participate; take part

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

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

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

partake in (be active in)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Specialized cell types including macrophages, neutrophils, and monocytes take part in this process in higher organisms.

(Fc Gamma Receptor-Mediated Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Each study has its own rules about who can take part.

(Clinical Trials, NIH: National Institutes of Health)

If a person chooses to take part in the treatment, procedure, trial, or testing, he or she signs the form to give official consent.

(Consent form, NCI Dictionary)

A request (spoken or written) to participate, be present, or take part in something

(Invitation, NCI Thesaurus)

IRBs are meant to protect the people who take part in a clinical trial.

(IRB, NCI Dictionary)

At least I have been driven forth to take part in a wondrous adventure, and I cannot but be thankful to the force that drove me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is to help them decide if they want to be treated, tested, or take part in the trial.

(Consent process, NCI Dictionary)

An individual designated by the grantee to take part in the conduction of the study or to participate in a scientific activity being supported by the grant.

(Grant Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)

Institutional Review Boards are designed to protect the people who take part in a clinical trial.

(Institutional Review Board, NCI Dictionary)

Because, sire, it is not for you to take part with Gascons against English, or with English against Gascons, seeing that you are lord of both.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)