Take In

Definition: Take In

Take In

Verb

1. Provide with shelter.

2. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

3. Suck or take up or in; "A black star absorbs all matter.".

4. Visit for entertainment; "take in the sights".

5. Call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts".

6. See or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie".

7. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees".

8. Fold up, of sails.

9. Take up, as of knowledge or beliefs.

10. : earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?" "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month".

11. : hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; "We overheard the conversation at the next table".

12. : accept; "The cloth takes up the liquid".

13. : take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words".

14. : take up as if with a sponge.

15. : serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee".

16. : take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua".

17. : make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight".

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

Synonyms: Take In

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Intelligibility

Understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Shortness

Verb: be short; Adjective: render short; Adjective: shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; (contract); epitomize.

Crosswords: Take In

What'll you take in trade? (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

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)

And then at night, we'd take in an opera, probably Die Fledermaus, and then I'd follow it up with a drive to a secluded beach where I'd pop on the radio and we could slow-dance till the sun came up. (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

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)

Take in the Sun (1927)

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Music

• Take in the Sun (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Onlookers take in the beauty of the Mill Creek Falls on the Upper Rogue. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

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

In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching are being done for a firm in Mayaguez and will eventually be sold in New York. Puerto Rico. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Roping gray wolf," Cowboys take in a gray wolf on "Round up," in Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And thus came in the use of money, some lasting thing that men might keep without spoiling, and that by mutual consent men would take in exchange for the truly useful, but perishable supports of life. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Take in your two beaks all the little straws of felicity on earth, and build yourselves a nest for life.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Ticks feed by inserting their mouths into the skin of a host and slowly take in blood. (references)

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)

Business

These processes can take in theory up to 120 calendar days for a concession and 90 for a permit. (references)

One of the difficulties faced by people who have owned a business in the U.S. and have tried to start something similar in Greece, is that they are usually not aware how much longer the start up procedures take in Greece. (references)

Economic History

Burma

The consortium's income is expected to double from last year as a result of this year's earnings and settlement payments for gas that Thailand's PTT contracted for but it could not take in 2000. At present, the consortium is again in negotiations with PTT over revising the contract. (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)

Travel

Georgia

Travelers should take the same precautions in Tbilisi they would take in any large city. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take in": take in a lady ♦ take in a reef ♦ take in at a glance ♦ take in bad part ♦ take in charge ♦ take in good part ♦ take in hand ♦ take in jest ♦ take in knowledge ♦ take in one's stride ♦ take in pieces ♦ take in reverse ♦ take in sail ♦ take in smth. ♦ take in the rear ♦ take in tow ♦ take in vain ♦ take in water ♦ to take in ♦ To take in hand ♦ To take in vain ♦ To take in with. Additional references.

Afrikaans

neem (accept, get, lay, lay hold of, pick, pick up, receive, take), aanvaar (accept, receive, take), aanneem (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Albanian

zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take up, understate), pranoj (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, allow, avouch, buy, concede, confess, countenance, grant, own, permit, receive, recognize, take, take on, underwrite, wear), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, trick), marr (accede, acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take out), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, gather, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, twig on, understand), fut brenda (let in, thrust in, thrust into, tuck in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏تلقى باطراد, ‏ضم (add, adjoin, annexation, apposition, close, combine, conjoin, conjunction, join, piece, piece together, subtend), ‏ذهب للسينما (picture), ‏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, trick, victimize, wile), ‏إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, get around, imbibe, ingest, realize, stomach, suck, swallow), ‏إشتمل (comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, enclose, have, inclose, include), ‏أدخل (allow, bill, come in, heel, inject, insert, introduce, let in, press, put in, send in, show in, slot, squeeze, yield), ‏بدأ (begin, begin on smth., commence, fall to, incept, initialize, initiate, institute, launch, lead, lead off, proceed, set, set about, set in, start, start off, tackle, take, tee). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обхващам (comprehend, comprise, embed, encompass, envelop, grip, include, obsess, overcome, overtake, pervade, possess, seize, span, spread), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, trick, trim), печеля (earn, gain, get, harvest, profit, pull down, realize, score, win), подслонявам (accommodate, house, refuge, shelter), поемам (absorb, accept, defray, draw, hit, receive, strike, take), поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take over, whelm), прибирам (gather, get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, put up, remove, retract, round up, truss, unship), абониран съм за (take), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, thimblerig, trickery, twist), забелязвам (cognize, discern, espy, identify, note, notice, observe, perceive, pipe, remark, sight, spot, take notice), схващам (apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, discover, get, get a hold of, grasp, note, perceive, pick up, see, sense, twig, understand), отивам на, вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, levy, load, partake, pick up, pot, retake, take, take away, take up), включвам (add in, comprise, cover, engage in, engraft, gear, include, incorporate, insert, involve, latch, make, number, occlude, plug in, subsume, throw in), въвеждам (bring, bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, prelude, premise, prologue, put in, set up, show, usher in), гълтам лековерно, разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, think, understand, work out), свивам корабно платно, стеснявам дреха, арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take up). (various references)

Catalan

acceptar (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Chinese 

吞吐 (to take in and send out), �"�入 (income, revenue, to take in), �"� (to act, to do, to drill, to exercise, to hold, to keep, to manage, to take in hand), 上當 (be duped, be fooled, be take in). (various references)

Czech

podvod (cheating, con, deceit, deception, dupery, falsehood, fiddle, flam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gold brick, guile, imposition, imposture, racket, swindle, trick, trickery), chápat (appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, construe, follow, get it, grasp, perceive, see, take, understand), humbuk (eyewash, gimmickry, humbug, hype), napálit (bamboozle, beat, cheat, con, dupe, fool, hoax, slog), natankovat (fuel, refuel, tank), obhlédnout, odbírat, přidat se (join in, take sides), přijímat (enrol, enroll, receive), přinést (bring, fetch, offer up, return), brát si domù, pochopit (comprehend, cotton on to, fathom, figure out, figure to oneself, get the message, grasp, perceive, realize, understand), zapamatovat si (commit to memory, keep in mind, remember), pojmout (admit, contain, hold, include), registrovat (register), sebrat (compile, dig up, gather up, nab, pick up, pouch, raise, rally, scoop up, take up), stržit, svinout (coil up, furl, involve), ubytovat (accommodate, billet, quarter, station), vnímat (apprehend, perceive, take notice, taste), zabrat (annex, be effective, commandeer, confiscate, grip, impound, occupy, requisition, take, take on, take up), zahrnout (comprehend, count, embrace, encompass, fill up, include, incorporate, involve), zúžit (narrow), přivézt (carry). (various references)

Danish

modtage (accept, get, have, receive, take). (various references)

Dutch

verlakken (lacquer, varnish), smokkelen (smuggle), ontvangen (accept, conceive, get, have, receive, take), innen (cash, collect, gather, pick up), geabonneerd zýn (have a subscription), erkennen (accept, acknowledge, admit, confess, confirm, corroborate, profess, receive, recognise, recognize, take), beetnemen (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, hoax, mystify, trick), bedotten (bilk, cheat, fool, hoax, mystify, trick), accepteren (accept, receive, take), abonnee zýn van (have a subscription), abonnee zýn (have a subscription), aanvaarden (accept, receive, take), aannemen (accept, adopt, affiliate, confirm, employ, guess, hire, presume, receive, suppose, surmise, take). (various references)

Esperanto

trompeti, enspezi, akcepti (accept, receive, take), ĉarlatani (bilk, cheat). (various references)

Faeroese

taka við (accept, receive, take), taka ímóti (accept, receive, take), viðurkenna (accept, acknowledge, appreciate, approve, receive, recognize, take), halda (account, accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, guess, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, suppose, surmise). (various references)

Finnish

tilata (book, have a subscription, order, reserve, subscribe), ottaa vastaan (accept, receive, take). (various references)

French

recevoir (take), admettre (take), accueillir (take), accepter (take, take on). (various references)

Frisian

yntekenje (have a subscription), oannimme (accept, adopt, receive, take), oanfurdigje (accept, receive, take). (various references)

German

hereinlegen (bamboozle, catch out, con, hoodwink). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκινώ (get off, initiate, instigate, make a start, move off, push off, set forth, set off, set out, start), μπάζω, παίρνω (bear away, carry off, clear away, collect, contract, derive, get, take), χωρώ (contain, fit in). (various references)

Hawaiian

pranoj (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלוט (absorb, comprehend, imbibe, merge, occlude, receive), לעכל (assimilate, comprehend, consume, digest), לאסוף (collect, gather, rake, reap, remove, round up, withdraw), לכלול (comprehend, comprise, contain, embrace, encompass, figure in, include), ל�"קיף (circuit, embrace, encircle, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, pale, ring, round, span, surround), ל�"בין (apprehend, comprehend, follow, gather, grasp, know, make out, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, take, understand), לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, dupe, fob, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride). (various references)

Hungarian

rendel (destine, have a subscription, order, to destine, to order, to place an order), rászed (bamboozle, beguile, bluff, cheat, circumvent, deceive, diddle, dupe, gull, have the bulge on sy, hoax, hoodwink, play false, swindle, to abuse, to bamboozle, to bilk, to bluff, to cheat, to circumvent, to con, to cozen, to dupe, to finagle, to get the bulge on sy, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to let in, to pole, to put off, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to suck sy in, to swindle, to trick, to victimize, Welch), megrendel (bespeak, bespoke, bespoken, have a subscription, to bespeak, to commission, to place an order), elfogad (accept, acknowledge, adapt, adopt, receive, recognize, take, to adopt, to pass, to receive, to take for granted, to take from), bevisz (get in, to get in, to take in, to take into, type in), bevesz (occupy, swallow, to take in, to take into), beugratás (con game, confidence game, confidence trick, have on, hoax), behord (to get in, to take in), becsap (cheat, chouse, deceive, delude, diddle, double cross, fob, gyp, hocus, hocus pocus, mislead, nobble, renege, slam, spoof, string along, 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 take in, to trick, to victimize, two time), akceptál (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Icelandic

samþykkja (accept, accord, agree, come to an agreement, receive, take), gerast áskrifandi að (have a subscription), þakka (accept, receive, take, thank). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelandang (be a vagrant), mengandakkan (limit, reef). (various references)

Irish

glac (accept, receive, take), faomh (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Italian

accettare (accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, agree to, follow, receive, take, welcome), accogliere (accept, admit, agree to, allow, grant, Harbor, harbour, receive, sustain, take, welcome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

搬入 (bring in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

は�"にゅう (bring in). (various references)

Lombard

accett� (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Malay

terima (accept, get, have, receive, take), menerima (accept, get, have, receive, take). (various references)

Manx

goaill stiagh (annex, annexation, comprehend; intake, comprise, contain, include, inclusion, ingathering, taking in). (various references)

Norwegian

godta (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Papiamen

aseptá (accept, receive, take), akseptá (accept, receive, take), aboná (have a subscription). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay inay

Polish

przyjmować. (various references)

Portuguese

admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, avow, concede, confess, grant, lead off, let in, receive), aceitar (accept, adhere, admit, adopt, assume, have, hug, receive, subscribe, take, take on, undertake). (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, trick, wangle), primi (accept, derive, draw, embrace, entertain, get, have, let in, receive, take), pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, tumble to, understand), include (add in, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embosom, embrace, enclose, include), gheşeft (bargain, business, sell, swindle), fi abonat la, cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, springe, stroke, the dogs, toil, trap), chiul (truancy), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, agree, approve, assent, assume, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, receive, take, take on), înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, ramp). (various references)

Russian 

принимать (accept, accepted, adopt, assume, embrace, incorporate, pass, receive, receive a visit, take on, take over, take up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uneti (bring in, carry in, draw in, enter, fill in, import, inscribe, introduce), suziti (constrict, narrow, tear), razgledati (look round), primiti na prenoćište, prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, trick, victimize). (various references)

Spanish

tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, pick up, receive, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), aceptar (accept, accepts, admit, adopt, agree, allow, digest, embrace, fall in, honor, honour, identify, lap up, receive, say yes to, see, take, take on, take up), admitir (accept, acknowledge, admit, admit of, allow, allow of, allow out, avow, bear, concede, confess, initiate, receive, recognize, take, tell), engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, trick, while away). (various references)

Swahili

pokea (accept, receive, take). (various references)

Swedish

hysa (bear, cherish, conceal, entertain, Foster, Harbor, harbour, have, hide, house, hug, nourish, nurse, take). (various references)

Tagalog

tanggapín (accept, get, have, receive, take). (various references)

Turkish

almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pick up, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak). (various references)

Ukrainian

розуміти сутність, робити учасником, включати (add in, comprehend, comprise, cut in, embody, introduce, put), надавати притулок, брати (nim, take, take on), приймати (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, initiate, receive, take on, take over, tidy), передплачувати (subscribe). (various references)

Zulu

-amukela (accept, receive, take). (various references)

concipio, conplectebuntur, conplectere, conplectimini, conplectuntur, conplexa, conplexus, conplexusque, decipere, receperit, recepistis, recepto, receptum, recipere, reciperet, recipiat, recipies, recipiet, sugatis, sugent, sugentem, sugentes, sugeret, suges, suget, sugetis. (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

Direct Anagrams: intake.

-1 letter: entia, taken, takin, tenia, tinea.

-2 letters: akin, ante, anti, etna, ikat, kain, kane, kent, kina, kine, kite, knit, neat, nite, tain, take, tank, teak, tike, tine.

-3 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eta, ink, kae, kat, kea, ken, kin, kit, nae, net, nit, tae, tan, tea, ten, tie, tin.

-4 letters: ae, ai.

+1 letter: antlike, beatnik, intakes, kainite, keratin, kyanite, unakite.

+2 letters: ankerite, anticked, antileak, antinuke, auntlike, beatniks, betaking, gnatlike, kainites, keratins, knitwear, kyanites, lankiest, mistaken, retaking, snakebit, snakiest, tanklike, twankies, tweaking, unakites.

+3 letters: ankerites, antismoke, casketing, crankiest, giantlike, interbank, jacketing, kaolinite, kinematic, marketing, packeting, phenakite, plantlike, racketing, retacking, saintlike, snakebite, snarkiest, sneakiest, streaking, swankiest, tackiness, talkiness, thinkable.