TO TAKE IN

Definition: TO TAKE IN

TO TAKE IN

1. (a) To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. --Chapman. (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. ``Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.'' --I. Watts. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TAKE IN

It's just easier to take in a relationship. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

We'd love to take in Stephie. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

My first command to you, lord Earl, is to take in marriage the hand of the Lady Marian. (The Adventures of Robin Hood; writing credit: Norman Reilly Raine ; Seton I. Miller)

What it is going to take in the '90s ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer)

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I think we ought to take in a little sail!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we stayed only to take in fresh water.

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Health

Sometimes people with HD, who may burn as many as 5,000 calories a day without gaining weight, require five meals a day to take in the necessary number of calories. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

One of the first steps which an exporter may wish to take in locating an agent or distributor in South Africa is to contact the U.S. Department of Commerce and to register for one of the many services specifically designed to meet the needs of U.S. client companies. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

As part of the program to develop Taiwan into a global logistics center, the Ministry of Finance promulgated the Customs Clearance Regulations for Logistics Centers on March 21, 2000. The new rules permit Logistics Centers to take in import, export, and transshipped goods with no restriction on the origin of the goods and that the goods in logistics centers may be inspected, tested, rearranged, separated, assembled, and repackaged, as well as subjected to simple processing. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

The centers are to take in street children and provide them with handicraft training and recreational opportunities. (references)

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Expressions using "TO TAKE IN": To take in hand ♦ To take in vain ♦ To take in with. Additional references.

Chinese 

�"�入 (income, revenue). (various references)

Danish

mindske sejl (to shorten sail, to take in sail). (various references)

Dutch

zeil minderen (to shorten sail, to take in sail). (various references)

French

diminuer de voile (to shorten sail, to take in sail). (various references)

German

Bargeld einnehmen (to take in cash). (various references)

Greek 

μαζεύω μερικά από τα ιστία (to shorten sail, to take in sail), μαζεύω μερικά από τα πανιά (to shorten sail, to take in sail). (various references)

Hungarian

tisztába jön, elkezdődik (began, begun, to begin, to commence, to tee off), beereszt (let in, to let in, to let into, to tail in), befogad (accept, adopt, take it into, to accommodate, to admit, to house, to receive, to take into), behálóz (encompass, enmesh, mesh, to encompass, to enmesh, to mesh, to net, to nett), behord (take in, to get in), betesz (insert, put in, to insert, to put in, to shut to, tuck in), bevesz (occupy, swallow, take in, to take into), bevezet (bring into play, carry into effect, instal, install, institute, introduce, lead in, pass into, preamble, prelude, show in, to add sg in, to bring in, to inaugurate, to induct, to initiate, to preface, to put in, to usher, to wire), bevisz (get in, take in, to get in, to take into, type in), egybefoglal (unify), becsap (cheat, chouse, deceive, delude, diddle, double cross, fob, gyp, hocus, hocus pocus, mislead, nobble, renege, slam, spoof, string along, take in, to abuse, to bang, to bilk, to bluff, to chisel, to con, to cozen, to deceive, to delude, to dupe, to finagle, to fox, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to keep tricking sy, to kid, to let in, to let into, to mock at sg, to nick, to nick sy for sg, to pass the buck, to pole, to put off, to renege, to rook, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to spoof, to suck sy in, to swindle, to trick, to victimize, two time), elbolondít (to bamboozle, to infatuate, to kid), felfog (apprehend, comprehend, grasp, perceive, realize, to apprehend, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceptualize, to entrap, to grasp, to intercept, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to tumble to, understand), körültekint, kisebbre vesz, magához vesz (got, to get, to ingest), megnéz (eye, see, survey, to attend, to eyeball, to glom, to look at, to look up, to visit, view), megtéveszt (bewilder, mystify, put by, to abuse, to cozen, to deceive, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to humbug, to mystify, to throw off), megtekint (to survey, to visit, view), nagyokat hazudik (to draw the long bow), előfizet (to subscribe to). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

謀る (to attempt, to deceive, to design, to devise, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B), 図る (to attempt, to deceive, to design, to devise, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たばかる (to attempt, to deceive, to design, to devise, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B), ひっ�"める (to draw in), のみ�"む (to catch on to, to digest, to gulp down, to learn, to swallow deeply, to understand), つり�"む (to attract), いれる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to put into, to set, to tolerate, to usher in), はかる (to attempt, to confer, to consult with, to deceive, to design, to devise, to measure, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B, to survey, to time, to weigh), とりいれる (to adopt, to harvest), とり�"む (to be busy, to be confused, to introduce). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay aketay inay

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: intake, kation, kitten, notate.

-3 letters: atone, eikon, enoki, entia, koine, oaken, oaten, taint, taken, takin, tanto, tenia, tinea, titan, token.

-4 letters: aeon, akin, ante, anti, etna, ikat, ikon, into, iota, kain, kane, kaon, keno, kent, keto, kina, kine, kino, kite, knit, knot, koan, naoi, neat, nett, nite, nota, note, oink, tain, take, tank.

+3 letters: kinetoplast.

+4 letters: antitakeover, kinetoplasts.

+5 letters: streptokinase.

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