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.

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#To carry or move, especially to a particular destination.

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#To lead; to conduct.

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#*:They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

#To choose.

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#*(Bible), 1 (w) xiv 42

#*:Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken .

#To accept.

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#To receive (a newspaper, magazine, etc.) regularly, as by paying the subscription.

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#(lb) To gain a position by force.

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#To ingest medicine, drugs, etc.

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#*: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.

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#To observe; to gather information on.

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#(lb) To form a likeness of; to copy; to depict.

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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

#(lb) To deliver, give (something); to entrust.

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#*: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.

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# To assume or interpret to be.

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#(lb) To become.

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#(lb) To enroll (in a class, or a course of study).

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#(lb) To participate in, undergo, or experience.

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#(lb) To habituate to or gain competency at a task.

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#(lb) To perform or undertake, for example, a task.

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#(lb) To experience or feel, for example, offence.

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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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#(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.

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#(lb) To need, require.

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#(lb) To last or expend [an amount of time].

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To decide or to act.

#(lb) To not swing at a pitch.

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#(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.).

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#Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear.

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(lb) To have sex with.

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(lb) To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)

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(lb) To stick, persist, thrive or remain.

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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.

(lb) To use.

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(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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#*(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.

Verb

(en verb)

to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force

* Bible, Genesis viii. 9

He put forth his hand and pulled her in.

* Shakespeare

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

to pull''' fruit from a tree; to '''pull''' flax; to '''pull a finch

to apply a force such that an object comes toward the person or thing applying the force

You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.

To attract or net; to pull in.

* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

* Bible, Lam. iii. 11

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

(ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) to persuade (someone) to have sex with one

I pulled at the club last night.

He's pulled that bird over there.

to remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability

Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.

(informal) to do or perform

He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.

You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.

to retrieve or generate for use

I'll have to pull a part number for that.

* 2006 , Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!

They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.

to toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field

to row

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI

It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).

(video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.

* 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), " Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:

…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.

* 2004 October 18, "Stush" (username), " Re: focus pull", in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot, Usenet:

Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.

* 2005 August 2, "Brian" (username), " Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.

* 2007 April 10, "John Salerno" (username), " Re: Managing the Command Buttons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….

* 2008 August 18, "Mark (newsgroups)" (username), " Re: I'm a priest now!", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

Shield yourself, pull' with Mind Blast if you want, or merely ' pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.

to score a certain amount of points in a sport.

* How many points did you pull today, Albert?

(horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.

The favourite was pulled .

(printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.

(cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)

* R. H. Lyttelton

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.

(UK, slang) To pour beer from a pump, keg, or other source.

Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barkeep ''pulls'' a good pint.