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As nouns the difference between stuff and take

is that stuff is living room while take is a fog or mist.

stuff

English

(wikipedia stuff)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:The workman on his stuff' his skill doth show, / And yet the ' stuff gives not the man his skill.
  • A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
  • *1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p.147:
  • *:She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.
  • Abstract substance or character.
  • *c.1599 , (William Shakespeare),
  • *:When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
  • *c.1610 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) ,
  • *:We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
  • (lb)
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • Substitution for trivial details.
  • :
  • (lb) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
  • *1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 11 March:
  • *:For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff .
  • Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • *Sir (c.1564-1627)
  • *:He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff .
  • (lb) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • (lb) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
  • (lb) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
  • :
  • Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff .
  • :(Knight)
  • Usage notes

    * The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
  • She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret stuffing recipe.
  • * Dryden
  • Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
  • To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
  • He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together and they retain smell and colour.
  • (used in the passive) To sate.
  • I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
  • (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To be broken. (rfex)
  • To sexually penetrate. (rfex)
  • To be cut off in a race by having one's projected and committed racing line (trajectory) disturbed by an abrupt manoeuvre by a competitor.
  • I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
  • To preserve a dead bird or animal by filling its skin.
  • To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'm stuffed , cousin; I cannot smell.
  • To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
  • (dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  • Synonyms

    * (to sexually penetrate) fuck, root, screw

    Derived terms

    * * stuff the ballot box * stuffy

    Derived terms

    * made of sterner stuff * stuff one's face * stuff up * stuff-up * stuff you * stuffed up * get stuffed

    take

    English

    Verb

  • To get or put something into one's or someone's possession or control.
  • #To grasp with the hands.
  • #To pick up and move to oneself.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • #To carry or move, especially to a particular destination.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.}}
  • #To lead; to conduct.
  • #:
  • #*2002 ,
  • #*:They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!
  • #To choose.
  • #:
  • #*(Bible), 1 (w) xiv 42
  • #*:Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken .
  • #To accept.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
  • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • #To receive (a newspaper, magazine, etc.) regularly, as by paying the subscription.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To gain a position by force.
  • #:
  • #To ingest medicine, drugs, etc.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.
  • #To capture using a photographic camera.
  • #:
  • #To observe; to gather information on.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To form a likeness of; to copy; to depict.
  • #:
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
  • #(lb) To deliver, give (something); to entrust.
  • #*:
  • #*:for thy loue I haue lefte my countrey / And sythe ye shalle departe oute of this world / leue me somme token of yours that I may thynke on you / Ioseph said that wille I doo ful gladly / Now brynge me your sheld that I toke yow whanne ye went in to bataille ageynst kyng Tolleme
  • #*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XXIII:
  • #*:Jesus perceaved there wylynes, and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.
  • (lb) To have or change a state of mind or body.
  • #(lb) To endure or cope with.
  • #:
  • # To assume or interpret to be.
  • #:
  • #*, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.}}
  • #(lb) To become.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To enroll (in a class, or a course of study).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To participate in, undergo, or experience.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To habituate to or gain competency at a task.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To perform or undertake, for example, a task.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • #(lb) To experience or feel, for example, offence.
  • #:
  • #*, chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
  • #(lb) To go.
  • #*2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge, 2008, p.59:
  • #*:Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.
  • (lb) To require or limit.
  • #(lb) To support or carry without failing or breaking.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To need, require.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Code blue , passage=Time was it took a war to close a financial exchange. Now all it needs is a glitch in technology. On August 26th trading on Eurex, the main German derivatives exchange, opened as usual; 20 minutes later it shut down for about an hour. Four days earlier the shares of every company listed on NASDAQ, an American stock exchange, ceased trading for three hours.}}
  • #(lb) To last or expend [an amount of time].
  • #:
  • To decide or to act.
  • #(lb) To not swing at a pitch.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively.
  • #(lb) To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it.
  • #To be the player who performs (a free kick, etc.).
  • #:
  • #Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear.
  • #:
  • (lb) To have sex with.
  • :
  • (lb) To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)
  • :
  • (lb) To stick, persist, thrive or remain.
  • :
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
  • (lb) To use.
  • :
  • (lb) To decide, react, or interact.
  • # To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
  • #*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • #*:Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take .
  • #(lb) To consider as an instance or example.
  • #:
  • #To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  • #*(Bible), (w) vi.25:
  • #*:Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • #*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
  • #*:Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
  • #*(Thomas Moore) (1779-1852)
  • #*:I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, — a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, — which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.
  • #To bear without ill humour or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure.
  • #:
  • #To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept.
  • #* (1674-1718)
  • #*:I take thee at thy word.
  • #To draw; to deduce; to derive.
  • #:
  • #*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
  • #*:The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.
  • #To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
  • #*(Bible), (w) xxxv.31:
  • #*:Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.
  • #*(Bible), v.10:
  • #*:Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore.
  • # To understand or interpret.
  • Usage notes

    In informal speech, especially in certain sociolects, (took) is sometimes replaced by the proscribed form (taked).

    Quotations

    * 1611 — (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us

    Synonyms

    * (to grasp with the hands) grab, grasp, grip * (sense, to get into one's possession) confiscate, seize * capture, conquer, seize * (to have sex with) have * get * ingest * receive * swallow

    Antonyms

    * (to accept) give * (to carry) bring * drop

    Derived terms

    * foretake * out-take * take aback * take a bath * take a bite * take a bow * take a breather * take a chance * take a chill pill * take a dive * take a dump * take a gamble * take a look * take a pew * take a picture * take a risk * take a run at * take a spill * take a spin * take a tumble * take action * take advantage * take after * take against * take along * take amiss * take apart * take around * take aside * take away * take back * take charge * take comfort * take cover * take down * take exception to * take five * take flight * take for a spin * take for granted * take form * take guard * take hold * take-home pay * take in * take it as it comes * take it away * take it easy * take it like a man * take it on the chin * take it out on * take off the table * take off * take offence * take offense * take on * take one's rest * take one's time * take oneself off * take out * take over * take part * take place * take pleasure * take pride * take someone prisoner * take round * take shape * take sides * take silk * takest * take stock * take that * take the biscuit * take the cake * take the fall * take the mick * take the mickey * take the piss * take the trouble * take through * take time * take to extremes * take to heart * take to one side * take to one's bed * take to one's heels * take to * take to the streets * take turns * take umbrage * take up for * take up with * take up * take upon * take vows * take with a pinch of salt * you can't take it with you See also'' taken''' ''and'' ' taking

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of taking.
  • Something that is taken; a haul.
  • A profit, reward, bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback.
  • He wants half of the take if he helps with the job.
    The mayor is on the take .
  • An interpretation or view; perspective.
  • What’s your take on this issue, Fred?
  • (film) An attempt to record a scene.
  • It’s a take .
    Act seven, scene three, take two.
  • (rugby) A catch.
  • (acting) A facial gesture in response to an event.
  • I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.
  • (cricket) A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper.
  • (printing) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
  • Derived terms

    * double take * give and take * on the take * take two * take-or-pay

    See also

    These need to be checked and put in the section for the noun or verb senses as appropriate * bytake * intake * mistake * outtake * overtake * spit take * takings, taking * uptake

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