Work vs Take - What's the difference?
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Employment.
#Labour, occupation, job.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of.
#*Bible, 2 (w) xxxi. 21
#*:In every work that he beganhe did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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, title= #The place where one is employed.
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Effort.
#Effort expended on a particular task.
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##Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
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#(lb) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
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, title= #(lb) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) Product; the result of effort.
# The result of a particular manner of production.
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# Something produced using the specified material or tool.
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#(lb) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:to leave no rubs or blotches in the work
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The work some praise, / And some the architect.
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#*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work , a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
#(lb) A fortification.
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The staging of events to appear as real.
(lb) Ore before it is dressed.
:(Raymond)
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
# Followed by in'' (or ''at , etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
# Followed by as . Said of one's job title
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# Followed by for . Said of a company or individual who employs.
# Followed by with . General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To effect by gradual degrees.
* Addison
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
* Francis Bacon
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
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, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (figuratively) To influence.
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
* Addison
To behave in a certain way when handled;
(transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
* {{quote-book, passage=So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(Ballads of a Cheechako), chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike), year=1909}}
(obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), ''(w, Le Morte d'Arthur), Book XXI:
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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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 #To carry or move, especially to a particular destination.
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, 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.
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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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#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, 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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, title= #(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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#*: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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, 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.
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, title= #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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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#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
#* (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.
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.
As nouns the difference between work and take
is that work is employment while take is a fog or mist.As a verb work
is to do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.work
English
(wikipedia work)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) worc, weorc, . English cognates include bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo , meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work .}}
See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055.
Synonyms
* (employment) See also * (productive activity) See alsoDerived terms
* artwork * at work * body of work * bodywork * breastwork * bridgework * busy work * casework * clockwork * derivative work * dirty work * dreamwork * earthwork * field work, fieldwork * finger work * firework * fretwork * groundwork * guesswork * hard work * handiwork * homework * housework * ironwork * leg work, legwork * lifework * masterwork * needlework * openwork * overwork * paintwork * paperwork * patchwork * piece of work * piecework * public works * reference work * road work, roadwork * schoolwork * shift work, shiftwork * spadework * teamwork * waterworks * waxwork * wickerwork * woodwork * work ethic * work of art * worklist * workly * workout * workplace * workroom * workshop * workstation * workstead * workupSee also
* -ingReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- I work''' in a national park; she '''works''' in the human resources department; he mostly '''works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- I work as a cleaner.
- she works''' for Microsoft; he '''works for the president
- I work''' closely with my Canadian counterparts; you '''work''' with computers; she '''works with the homeless people from the suburbs
- he worked''' his way through the crowd; the dye '''worked''' its way through; using some tweezers, she '''worked the bee sting out of her hand
- So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains / Of rushing torrents and descending rains, / Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, / Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.
- the working of beer when the barm is put in
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- A ship works in a heavy sea.
- confused with working sands and rolling waves
- ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’
Derived terms
* work at * work off * work on * work out * work over * work up * rework * worker * working * work it * work like a beaver * work like a charm * work like a dog * work like a horse * work like a Trojan * work the crowd * work the room * work to rule * work wonderstake
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.