資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Take \Take\, v. i.
   1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or
      intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was
      inoculated, but the virus did not take. --Shak.

            When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
                                                  --Bacon.

            In impressions from mind to mind, the impression
            taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any
            manifest effect.                      --Bacon.

   2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

            Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And
            hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
                                                  --Addison.

   3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's
      self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox,
      being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

   4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his
      face does not take well.

   {To take after}.
      (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes
          after a good pattern.
      (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

   {To take in with}, to resort to. [Obs.] --Bacon.

   {To take on}, to be violently affected; to express grief or
      pain in a violent manner.

   {To take to}.
      (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become
          attached to; as, to take to evil practices. ``If he
          does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great
          friendship with him.'' --Walpole.
      (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. ``Men of
          learning, who take to business, discharge it generally
          with greater honesty than men of the world.''
          --Addison.

   {To take up}.
      (a) To stop. [Obs.] ``Sinners at last take up and settle
          in a contempt of religion.'' --Tillotson.
      (b) To reform. [Obs.] --Locke.

   {To take up with}.
      (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without
          opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain
          fare. ``In affairs which may have an extensive
          influence on our future happiness, we should not take
          up with probabilities.'' --I. Watts.
      (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

   {To take with}, to please. --Bacon.



   {To take up}.
      (a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
      (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
          amount; to take up money at the bank.
      (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
          1.
      (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
          replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
          (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
      (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
          up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
      (f) To take permanently. ``Arnobius asserts that men of
          the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the
          Christian religion.'' --Addison.
      (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
          to take up vagabonds.
      (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]

                The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
                                                  --Bacon.
      (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.

                One of his relations took him up roundly.
                                                  --L'Estrange.
      (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
          continuous succession.

                Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon
                takes up the wondrous tale.       --Addison.