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Meaning of "took" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOOK

took  [tʊk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOOK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Took is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb took in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOOK

PRESENT

Present
I take
you take
he/she/it takes
we take
you take
they take
Present continuous
I am taking
you are taking
he/she/it is taking
we are taking
you are taking
they are taking
Present perfect
I have taken
you have taken
he/she/it has taken
we have taken
you have taken
they have taken
Present perfect continuous
I have been taking
you have been taking
he/she/it has been taking
we have been taking
you have been taking
they have been taking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I took
you took
he/she/it took
we took
you took
they took
Past continuous
I was taking
you were taking
he/she/it was taking
we were taking
you were taking
they were taking
Past perfect
I had taken
you had taken
he/she/it had taken
we had taken
you had taken
they had taken
Past perfect continuous
I had been taking
you had been taking
he/she/it had been taking
we had been taking
you had been taking
they had been taking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will take
you will take
he/she/it will take
we will take
you will take
they will take
Future continuous
I will be taking
you will be taking
he/she/it will be taking
we will be taking
you will be taking
they will be taking
Future perfect
I will have taken
you will have taken
he/she/it will have taken
we will have taken
you will have taken
they will have taken
Future perfect continuous
I will have been taking
you will have been taking
he/she/it will have been taking
we will have been taking
you will have been taking
they will have been taking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would took
you would took
he/she/it would took
we would took
you would took
they would took
Conditional continuous
I would be taking
you would be taking
he/she/it would be taking
we would be taking
you would be taking
they would be taking
Conditional perfect
I would have took
you would have took
he/she/it would have took
we would have took
you would have took
they would have took
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been taking
you would have been taking
he/she/it would have been taking
we would have been taking
you would have been taking
they would have been taking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you take
we let´s take
you take
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to take
Past participle
taken
Present Participle
taking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOOK

too
too bad
too big for one´s boots
too big for one´s breeches
too close to call
too much information
too right
too right!
toodle-oo
toodle-pip
Tooke
tool
tool box
tool kit
tool maker
tool making
tool post
tool pusher
tool shed
tool steel

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOOK

an open book
book
brook
cook
e-book
Facebook
guestbook
handbook
hook
in my book
look
netbook
nook
notebook
on the hook
outlook
overlook
textbook
the book
the New Look

Synonyms and antonyms of took in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TOOK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «took» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of took
abduct · abide · abstract · accept · accommodate · accompany · accomplish · acquire · act on · adopt · appraise · apprehend · appropriate · arrest · ascertain · assess · assume · bag · bear · bilk · blag · book · brave · bring · bring in · brook · buy · cabbage · calculate · capture · carry · carry off · cart · cart off · catch · cheat · chew over · choose · cite · clasp · clutch · collect · come by · comprehend · con · conduct · consider · consume · contain · contemplate · convey · convoy · countenance · cull · deal with · deceive · defraud · demand · derive · determine · do · do the trick · draw · drink · dupe · earn · eat · effect · endure · engage · ensnare · entail · entrap · escort · establish · evaluate · examine · excerpt · execute · experience · exploit · extract · feel · ferry · fetch · fiddle · filch · fill · find out · fish · fit · follow · gain · gate · gauge · get · get hold of · go · go through · grab · grasp · greet · grip · gross · guide · gull · hack · haul · have · hire · hold · imbibe · ingest · inhale · involve · journey · jump on · knock off · know · land · last · lay hold of · lead · learn · lease · make · make the most of · make use of · measure · meet · misappropriate · necessitate · need · net · nick · obtain · occupy · opinion · pay for · perform · pick · pinch · pocket · ponder · prefer · proceed · proceeds · progress · pull · purchase · purloin · pursue · put up with · quote · read · realize · receipts · receive · record · remove · rent · reproduce · require · reserve · return · revenue · run off with · scene · scoop · scrawl · scribble · secure · see · seize · select · sequence · set down · stand · steal · stiff · stomach · study · succeed · suffer · swallow · swindle · swipe · take advantage of · take on · take up · takings · thole · tolerate · tote · transport · travel · traverse · trek · trouser · undergo · understand · undertake · use · usher · view · voyage · walk · walk off with · wear · weather · weigh up · win · withdraw · withstand · work · write · yield

Translation of «took» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOOK

Find out the translation of took to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of took from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «took» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tomó
570 millions of speakers

English

took
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ले लिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

استغرق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

взял
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tomou
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রহণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

a pris
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengambil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nahm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

かかった
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

했다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Njupuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எடுத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घेतला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aldı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ha preso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wziął
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

взяв
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a luat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πήρε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

het
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tog
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tok
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of took

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOOK»

The term «took» is very widely used and occupies the 1.740 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of took
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «took».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOOK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «took» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «took» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about took

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «TOOK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word took.
1
William Adams
From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
2
Freddy Adu
I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
3
Jamie Anne Allman
I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.
4
Martin Amis
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
5
Michael Angarano
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.
6
Michelle Bachelet
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
7
John Barrasso
My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
8
Tom Berenger
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
9
Steve Berry
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.
10
Michael Biehn
I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOOK»

Discover the use of took in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to took and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Steps We Took
In The Steps We Took, Joe offers countless analogies, insights, explanations and elucidations of these principles, drawing from his own recovery experience and those of the hundreds he has helped. The title, taken from the words spoken at .
Joe McQ, 2002
2
WHEN THE KING TOOK FLIGHT
Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style.
Timothy TACKETT, 2009
3
Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel
Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town.
Kate Atkinson, 2011
4
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar ...
Through the story of this criminal’s remarkable rise, and of law enforcement’s quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans.
Kevin Poulsen, 2011
5
We Took to the Woods
First published in 1942, the story of the Rich family documents how they relocated to the woodland settlement of Middle Dam, Maine to raise their family in the remote backcountry, in an account that traces their adjustment and adventures in ...
Louise Dickinson Rich, 2007
6
When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the ...
Chronicles the lives of Kurt von Schuschnigg, son of the former Austrian Chancellor, and his family during the time of the Anschluss and how their faith helped them survive these difficult times.
Kurt Von Schuschnigg, Janet Von Schuschnigg, 2012
7
Rich Dad's Who Took My Money?: Why Slow Investors Lose and ...
Citing the factors that make typical investments insufficient for one's average long-term needs, a guide to maximizing returns offers advice on how to speed up investments and enable high-rate growth. Reissue. 100,000 first printing.
Robert T. Kiyosaki, 2012
8
Names Of Persons Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance To The ...
This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Thompson Westcott, 2011
9
Who Took the Cake?
Robbie Rotten steals Bessie Busybody's birthday cake and tries to pin the dastardly deed on Spartacus, but it doesn't take the LazyTown children long to track down the real culprit, in a story featuring rebuses.
Magnus Scheving, 2006
10
"If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and ...
"If the Workers Took a Notion" maps the connections among American political development, labor politics, and citizenship to support the claim that the right to strike ought to be a citizenship right and once was regarded as such.
Josiah Bartlett Lambert, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOOK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term took is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Here's Why Walter Palmer Keeps Saying He 'Took' Cecil The Lion
I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt ... I deeply regret that my pursuit of an ... «Huffington Post, Aug 15»
2
Taking It Slow, Until She Took Charge
They didn't plan for things to turn out this way: both of them well past 50, both living with a parent in the houses they grew up in, never married, no children. «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
BMV boss pushed fee, then took a job with a company that benefited
A top Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles official encouraged the use of a fee whose legality has been questioned — and now he works for a BMV contractor that ... «Indianapolis Star, Jul 15»
4
Father took blame — and prison — for fatal hit-and-run
Juan Silva (left) has been charged with killing a man in a 2013 crash, a crime that landed his father, Juan Silva Sr., in prison after police say he falsely took the ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul 15»
5
VA supervisor took $1.2 million in kickbacks; worker at veterans …
Two cases of criminal activity at the Department of Veterans Affairs involve, separately, kickbacks and stealing of gravestones. In a case out of New Jersey, ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
I Took 5000 Pictures of My Son in His First Year, And I Regret It
As a scientist, I love data; the more the better. It nourishes me, and, along with good academic parenting/mentoring, has helped me solve complex problems and ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Review: Sarah Hepola's 'Blackout,' on the Darkness That Took Over …
Addiction memoirs, for the most part, have flat third acts. Their writers get sober. That's cheerful news for them, but less so for us. They were so interesting to read ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
8
Drug cops took a college kid's savings and now 13 police …
In February 2014, Drug Enforcement Administration task force officers at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport seized $11,000 in cash from 24-year-old college ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
9
Who Is Bree Newsome, the Woman Who Took Down South …
Who Is Bree Newsome, the Woman Who Took Down South Carolina's ... So on Saturday, a woman named Bree Newsome took the matter into her own hands by ... «New York Magazine, Jun 15»
10
President Obama Took Me To Church Today
My parents came of age in the '60s and '70s, and so they remember when blacks weren't allowed to vote, and all the speeches and marches and blood that ... «Deadspin, Jun 15»

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