VERB
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take in, also metaphorically
She drew strength from the minister's words
The sponge absorbs water well -
make (clothes) smaller
Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight - provide with shelter
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earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
this merger brought in lots of money
How much do you make a month in your new job?
He clears $5,000 each month
She earns a lot in her new job -
take up mentally
he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe -
express willingness to have in one's home or environs
The community warmly received the refugees -
visit for entertainment
take in the sights - take up as if with a sponge
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hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
We overheard the conversation at the next table -
accept
The cloth takes up the liquid -
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
I don't take sugar in my coffee
Have another bowl of chicken soup! -
fold up
take in the sails -
take into one's family
They adopted two children from Nicaragua -
suck or take up or in
A black star absorbs all matter -
fool or hoax
The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
You can't fool me! -
see or watch
view an exhibition
view a show on television
see a movie
Catch a show on Broadway
This program will be seen all over the world -
call for and obtain payment of
we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts
he collected the rent
How To Use take in In A Sentence
- I think you have to take into account that he's a good deal younger than the rest of us.
- With no personal stake in the performance scene, Priyambada continues to be one of the most objective observers and commentators of the Odissi scene.
- What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
- These are based on the observation that expenditure is typically necessary to partake in such recreational activities.
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- As a result, Arnold had a stake in the deals he was negotiating on behalf of the district.
- [12] The original reference to experience from which the meaning of the term astronavigation should be derived is not essentially "space-travel," but forms of transoceanic navigation which take into account the effects specific to changes in specific astronomical experiences, from fixed to variable, which are relevant to transoceanic navigation within what had appeared, initially, as a permanently fixed set of changes within the ordering of the planets or specifically stellar phenomena. LaRouche's Latest
- It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
- What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account. Let's Move Their Cheese
- However, this does not take into account the optics of the system which degrade image quality somewhat giving a commonly accepted resolution of 1 arcminute/cycle. The Register