Put vs Take - What's the difference?
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To place something somewhere.
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, chapter=20 To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
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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, chapter=19 #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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, title= #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 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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#*: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.
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#(lb) To experience or feel, for example, offence.
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, chapter=20 #(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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, title= #(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.
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#*: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.
An act of taking.
Something that is taken; a haul.
A profit, reward, bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback.
An interpretation or view; perspective.
(film) An attempt to record a scene.
(rugby) A catch.
(acting) A facial gesture in response to an event.
(cricket) A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper.
(printing) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
In obsolete terms the difference between put and take
is that put is a prostitute while take is to deliver, give (something); to entrust.As verbs the difference between put and take
is that put is to place something somewhere while take is To get or put something into one's or someone's possession or control.As nouns the difference between put and take
is that put is a right to sell something at a predetermined price while take is an act of taking.As an acronym PUT
is acronym of Parameterized Unit Testing|lang=en.As an initialism PUT
is initialism of lang=en|programmable unijunction transistor.put
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
Etymology 3
(etyl) pute.Statistics
*take
English
Verb
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.}}
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.}}
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.}}
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.”}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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.}}
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 usSynonyms
* (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 * swallowAntonyms
* (to accept) give * (to carry) bring * dropDerived 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'' ' takingNoun
(en noun)- He wants half of the take if he helps with the job.
- The mayor is on the take .
- What’s your take on this issue, Fred?
- It’s a take .
- Act seven, scene three, take two.
- I did a take when I saw the new car in the driveway.