Take For

Definition: Take For

Take For

Verb

1. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take For

Belief

Verb: believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume.

Make oneself easy about, on that score; take on trust, take on credit; take for granted, take for gospel; allow some weight to, attach some weight to.

Choice

Take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit oneself to a course; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's lot with; take for better or for worse.

Credulity

Verb: be credulous; Adjective: jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws, grasp at straws.

Experiment

Verb: experiment; essay; (endeavor); try, try out, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength; road-test, test drive, take for a spin; test fly.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Crosswords: Take For

What will it take for us to walk out of here with that video tape? (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Gordon! How long does it take for a magnet to lose its power? (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

How long does it take for your people to steal ours? (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

Take for a start the sheeps' tendency to 'op about the field on their 'ind legs. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

The life you know; all the stuff you take for granted - it's not gonna last. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; writing credit: James Cameron; Gale Anne Hurd)

What would it take for me to be comfortable (Caught In The Sun; performing artist: Course Of Nature)

Cause the one thing most important is the one we take for granted (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner)

Take for a Ride (1931)

What You Take for Granted (1984)

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

Books

• The Judaism the Rabbis Take for Granted (reference)

• Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted, from the Everyday to the Obscure (reference)

• Century Makers: One Hundred Clever Things We Take for Granted Which Have Changed Our Lives over the Last One Hundred Years (reference)

• Everyday Machines: Amazing Devices We Take for Granted (reference)

• Secrets of Successful Fiction Writing: A Guide to Techniques and Approaches the Professionals Take for Granted (Santa Barbara Writer's Conference Sh) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Your doctor may give you an antibiotic to take for 1 or 2 days to prevent an infection. (references)

A person with faulty chemosenses is deprived of an early warning system that most of us take for granted. (references)

Doctors find that the longer problems existed before surgery, the longer it will take for the bladder to regain its full function after the operation. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Defendants in a number of major cases have managed to escape the country during the years it can take for a verdict to be reached. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "take for": take for a drive ♦ take for a ride ♦ take for a spin ♦ take for a walk ♦ take for better or for worse ♦ take for burial ♦ take for granted ♦ take for smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вземам за. (various references)

Czech

považovat za (consider as, give up, hold, hold for). (various references)

Finnish

pitää tiettynä (take for granted), pitää selvänä (take for granted), otaksua (assume, conjecture, suppose, surmise, take for granted). (various references)

French

tenir pour certain (take for granted), pigeonner (take for a ride), emmener qn en promenade (take for a ride), considérer comme allant de soi (take for granted), considérer comme admis (take for granted), assassiner (take for a ride). (various references)

German

halten für (consider, judge, repute, to repute, to take for). (various references)

Greek 

παίρνω σαν δεδομένο (take for granted). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רוס (knock down, run down, run over, stomp, take for a ride), לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, dupe, fob, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride, take in). (various references)

Hungarian

elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, adopt, receive, recognize, take, take in, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from). (various references)

Icelandic

heldur (preferably, rather, Take for true/Think). (various references)

Indonesian

mengira (presume). (various references)

Italian

prendere per. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

決め込む (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きめ�"む (to assume, to pretend, to take for granted). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay orfay

Portuguese

confundir com (mistake for). (various references)

Romanian

lua drept bun (take for granted), lua de bun (take for granted), admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, appoint, approve, assume, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate, vouchsafe). (various references)

Russian 

считать само собой разумеющимся (take for granted), выехать на прогулку (take for a ride). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povesti u vožnju (take for a ride). (various references)

Spanish

tomar para, robar para, coger para, asir para, agarrar para. (various references)

Turkish

zannetmek (conjecture, deem, guess, suppose, surmise, think), yanında götürmek (take along), sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, fancy, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, think). (various references)

Turkmen 

gezdirmek (Murat, take for a walk). (various references)

Ukrainian

вважати доведеним (take for granted), приймати за когось (take for smb.). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: afore, after, faker, fetor, forte, freak, korat, kraft, oater, ofter, orate, taker, tarok, toker, troak, troke.

-3 letters: aero, fake, fare, faro, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fora, fore, fork, fort, frae, frat, fret, froe, kart, kerf, keto, kore, okra, raft, rake, rate, rato, reft, rota, rote, take, tare, taro, teak, tear, toea.

+1 letter: freakout.

+2 letters: freakouts, lakefront.

+3 letters: aftershock, breakfront, lakefronts.

+4 letters: aftershocks, breakfronts, factorylike.