Take On

Definition: Take On

Take On

Verb

1. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables".

2. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?".

3. Accept as a challenge.

4. Set about dealing with; "I'll try to tackle this difficult task".

5. Admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member".

6. Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary".

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

Synonyms: Take On

Belief

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.

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.

Dejection

Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.

Discontent

Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum.

Pain

Sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark.

Reasoning,

Take on faith, take as a given; assume (supposition).

Crosswords: Take On

If it can be told, where did you take on this fine bundle of lettuce (Guys and Dolls; writing credit: Abe Burrows; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Nah! I think I'll take on your traditional role and watch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Normally I wait three risings of the sun before I take on a job. (The Manitou; writing credit: Jon Cedar; William Girdler)

Take on me, take me on (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha)

Someone to take on a walk by the lake (SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (1989)

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Books

• Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) (reference)

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Legionella pneumophila grows well on this medium, and the colonies take on a circular, off-white growth pattern. Credit: CDC.

They're the Royal Canadian Mounties of the immune system-the heroes who show up in the nick of time-and they take on all bacterial invaders, be they salmonella, listeria, pasteurella, or E. coli. They're infection-fighting white blood cells called heterophils, and poultry immunologist Michael Kogut has found a way to make them do his bidding to protect young poultry. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

In Wonsan Harbor, North Korea, circa 10-13 September 1951, seen from USS Floyd B. Parks (DD-884), which is coming alongside to take on fuel. Photographed by AFAN E.A. McDade. Credit: NAVY.

After the storm--only a few days after the opening of the Sicilian invasion, the beach near Scoglitti presented this peaceful appearance as an LCI (landing craft infantry) and an amphibious vehicle drew up to deliver and take on loads ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, becomes the home for WAVES in training. Here, midshipmen take on a heavy schedule to learn the duties of an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. G.I. textbooks are di. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Some anticancer drugs cause the urine to change color (orange, red, green, or yellow) or take on a strong or medicine-like odor for 24-72 hours. (references)

When the baby boomers move into the over-65 age group, stroke and other diseases will take on even greater significance in the health care field. (references)

In terms of drug use, however, the issue of marijuana may take on extra importance if the patient is on chemotherapy and has heard that marijuana helps prevent vomiting after chemotherapy. (references)

Business

Telkom is gearing up to take on competition. (references)

However, the PUB was reconstituted in 1995 to take on its new role as the regulator for the electricity and piped gas industries. (references)

With only 10% of the overall after-market service industry, express maintenance and light repair service has good potential to expand further as increasing number of car owners take on this new trend. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bahrain

The Government controls gatherings that might take on a political tone. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

Bahrain's IT initiatives have yet to take on the focus of a concerted drive. (references)

Austria

Most of the Austrian fairs are open to the general public, and thus take on an advertising function. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

Others accused the Commission of refusing to take on serious issues and failing to assert its legal authority at critical times. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) has recapitalized the banking system, but it has not moved quickly to dispose of assets acquired in the debt-restructuring process or to take on uncooperative debtors. (references)

MALAYSIA

As a result, foreign companies do not have the same opportunity as some local companies to compete for contracts and in most cases foreign companies are required to take on a local partner before their bid will be considered. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

This trend, which is still in its beginning phase, is expected to take on significant dimensions in the years to come. (references)

Morocco

Although other Moroccan banks have expressed some interest in this program, they have not overcome the reluctance of Moroccan importers to take on the foreign exchange risk of borrowing in dollars. (references)

Worker Rights

Macedonia

In addition, many persons take on supplemental work, often in the "gray market." The Government Statistics Office estimated that 22.3 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take on": take on a bet ♦ take on a new lease of life ♦ take on again ♦ take on board ♦ take on loan ♦ take on too much ♦ To take on. Additional references.

Albanian

zë vend (locate, seat, settle down, shape, take place, take seats), shqetësohem (care, fash, feeze, fluster, fret, fuss about, get excited, go off the deep end, trouble, worry), pranoj (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, allow, avouch, buy, concede, confess, countenance, grant, own, permit, receive, recognize, take, take in, underwrite, wear), përqafoj (cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enfold, fold, hug, squeeze, strain, take smb. in), marr përsipër (commit, undertake), fut (accept, cram into, drive, drive in, embed, engrain, enter, establish, foot, hide, insert, intercalate, interpolate, introduce, launch, let in, mix in, move in, number, plunge, poke, pour into, put, put in the picture, put smb. wise to smth., set, speak, stick into, stock up, stuff, submerge, thrust, tuck, usher in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قبل التحدى, ‏تحدى (affront, be provoked, be taunted, beard, brave, challenge, confront, dare, defy, fly in the face of, outface, pick a quarrel, quarrel), ‏تعود (be accustomed to, familiarization, fixation, get into a rut, get used to it, habituation, settle, take, wont), ‏تبنى (adopt, embrace, espousal, espouse, foster, take over), ‏إلتزم (abide, adhere, involve), ‏إتخذ شكلا أو مظهرا, ‏إتخذ (arrange, assume), ‏إستخدم (employ, engage, exercise, exploit, harness, hire, hunt, indent, involve, spend, use, utilize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разфучавам се, вълнувам се (effervesce, flutter, get excited, pulsate, roll, surge, thrill, throb), вземам допълнително, наемам се с, наемам (charter, employ, engage, fee, hire, sign on, sign up), надувам се (be arrogant, blow up, fill, preen, show off, swell with importance), наддавам (outbid, raise, run up), премервам силите си с (measure swords with), приемам като противник, прибавям (add, add in, add on, admix, affix, append, eke out, interpolate, join, put in, stick in, superadd, supplement, tack, tag, tail, tail on, throw in), придобивам (acquire, contract, get, harvest, have, pick up, purchase, work up), имам успех (go over, pay off, score, succeed as, take), идвам на мода (come in). (various references)

Chinese 

�""� (be charged with, bear, shoulder). (various references)

Czech

zamìstnat (employ, hire, occupy, task), zabrat (annex, be effective, commandeer, confiscate, grip, impound, occupy, requisition, take, take in, take up), vyvádìt (act up, carry on, create, horse about, make the fire), přijímat do práce, oddávat se èemu, najímat, brát na sebe. (various references)

Finnish

ottaa tehdäkseen jotakin (undertake a th.). (various references)

French

utiliser, s'engager, se charger de (take care, take charge, take over), prendre une habitude, embaucher, défier, accepter de rebattre contre, accepter (take, take in). (various references)

German

tanken (have a few, put gas in, refuel, tank up, to fuel, to refuel), sich durchsetzen (assert oneself, be accepted, be successful, catch on, prevail, to win recognition, win through), sich aufregen (fuss, get excited, get uptight, get worked up, to get excited, to get excitet), sich anlegen mit (get up against), nehmen (adopt, bereave, block, book, catch, charge, draw, engage, get, grasp, handle, have, hurdle, lay hold of, measure up, negotiate, overcome, pick up, relieve, seize, take, take away, take out, to take, treat, use), laden (boot, boot up, bootstrap, boutique, burden, charge, download, downloading, invite, joint, load, load up, loading, outfit, shop, show, shutter, store, summon, to bootstrap, to download, upload), einstellen (abandon, adjust, aim, appoint, attune, call off, cease, close down, collimate, discontinue, engage, focus, hire, hold, justify, lock on, place, position, put in, set, stall, stop, suspend, to collimate, to engage, to justify, to tune in, tune in, twist), bekommen (agree with, be awarded, be given, catch, develop, do good, expect, gain, get, get in, get off, getting, gotten, have, line up, obtain, pick up, reap, receive, score, take, throw, to obtain, win), aufnehmen (absorb, admit, affiliate, assimilate, begin, book, commence, enroll, enter into, establish, film, grabbing, hold, include, incorporate, ingest, list, photograph, pick up, raise, receive, record, sop up, take, take down, take in, take up, tape, to absorb, to affiliate, to assimilate, to host, to incorporate, to ingest, to record, twist, write in), antreten (assemble, assume, begin, come into, compete, enter upon, fall in, kick start, line up, match, report, sprint, start, take up, to report, tread down), anstellen (add, conduct, do, draw, employ, engage, get up to, lean, manage, place, put on, recruit, set about, sign up, start, switch on, to employ, to engage, turn on), annehmen (accept, acquire, adopt, approve, assume, assumes, contract, embrace, guess, honor, honour, imagine, imbibe, pass, presume, receive, sanctify, suppose, take, take in, to adopt, to assume, to expect, to suppose), an bord nehmen (Lade, ship), übernehmen (accept, adopt, assume, borrow, buy, defray, derive, take, take over, to adopt, to take on, to take over, undertake, undertaken). (various references)

Greek 

προσλαμβάνω (assume, employ, hire, sign on). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשחק � �'�", לקחת על עצמו, לקבל (accept, acquire, come by, get, obtain, receive, take), ל�"תמו�"�" (compete, contest, pit oneself against, tackle, wrestle), ל�"עסיק (employ, engage, keep busy, occupy). (various references)

Hungarian

magára ölt (to put on, to take on), felvesz (admit, assess, enrol, enroll, pull on, shove on, take up, to admit, to contract, to don, to enrol, to enroll, to get on, to pull on, to put on, to record, to reintroduce, to tick out), elvállal (-taken, to assume, to take on, to undertake, -took, undertake). (various references)

Italian

impiegare (employ, exert, expend, make, make use of, occupy, spend, take, turn to account, turn to good account, use, utilize), caricare (accuse, burden, cargo, charge, download, fill, freight, Lade, load, load up, prime, strech, tackle, upload, weigh down, weight, wind up), assumere (accede, assume, employ, engage, gather, hire, recruit, sign on, sign up, take, undertake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

載せる (to, to give a ride, to place on something, to take on board), 乗せる (to, to place on something, to take on board). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おびる (to be entrusted, to be tinged with, to carry, to have, to have a trace of, to put on, to take on, to wear), ひとやくかう (to take on a role, to take part), うけあう (to assure, to guarantee, to take on a task and guarantee success, to undertake), のせる (to give a ride, to impose on, to lettake part, to load, to mention, to place on, to publish, to record, to run, to take on board), あいてどる (to challenge, to take on an opponent). (various references)

Manx

goailler hene. (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay onay.(various references)

Portuguese

excitar-se (fuss, seethe), comprometer-se a (make a promise, promise), assumir (accept, admit, affect, assume, put on), aceitar (accept, adhere, admit, adopt, assume, have, hug, receive, subscribe, take, take in, undertake). (various references)

Romanian

conduce mai departe, cãpãta (acquire, assume, coax, come by, come in for, come into, contract, derive, earn, find, get, make, obtain, pick up, purchase, receive), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, agree, approve, assent, assume, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, receive, take, take in), a-şi asuma o responsabilitate. (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

snabdeti se (provide oneself with), primiti (accept, admit, receive, take, take it into, take over, welcome), prihvatiti se (settle down), odomaćiti (assimilate, naturalize), najmiti, latiti se (buckle down to, enter on, set out, set to, tackle, take up). (various references)

Spanish

tomar sobre sí, 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 in, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), cargar (buck, burden, carry, charge, charging, encumber, enwrap, fall on, lade, load, load down, load up, pack, pile up, plough, plow, Stoke, upload, weight), establecerse (establish oneself, open a branch, open an office, set up, set up in business, settle, settle down, start a business), encargarse de (handle, look after, see about, see after, see to, take charge of, take of, take over, undertake), emprender (adopt, assume, attack, enter on, go about, go around, go at, launch, light, set about, set out, set upon, start, tackle, take over, take up, taking over, undertake), cuajar (clot, coagulate, congeal, cover, jell, jellify, maw, set, settle, take, thicken), contratar (book, contract, engage, hire, invite tenders for, make a contract, put out to tender, sign on, sign up), aceptar (accept, accepts, admit, adopt, agree, allow, digest, embrace, fall in, honor, honour, identify, lap up, receive, say yes to, see, take, take in, take up), cargar con (pick up, shoulder), ganar (beat, benefit, best, carry, carry off, deserve, draw, earn, gain, get, get the best of, head, land, make, make money, profit, put over, reclaim, save, take, throw in, walk over, win, win out, win the toss), asumir (absorb, assimilate, assume, guess, photograph, presume, put on, receive, suppose, surmise, take, take over), apurarse (fret, hurry, hurry up, toil, upset, worry), agarrar (catch, catch hold of, clench, clutch, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hold, hold tight, lay hold of, lift, nail, pack, pinch, seize, snatch up, tackle, take, touch), acordarse (agree, recollect, think), coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off), excitarse (get excited, get worked up), unirse contra (join forces with), haberse con, hacer (accomplish, achieve, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bestow, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, knock out, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lumber, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perform, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), jugar contra (play), limpiarse (clean oneself, clean out, preen, wash), ponerse de moda (come in), ponerse en moda, ponerse nervioso (get the needle), quedarse con (hold on to, retain, touch), quejarse (address a complaint, beef, bellyache, bitch, carry on, complain, crab, gripe, groan, grouse, grumble, kick, moan, murmur, natter, niggle, quarrel, repine, sound off, squeal, wail, whimper, yammer, yap), realizar (accomplish, achieve, act out, actualize, answer, attain, bring into being, bring off, carry into effect, carry out, carry through, do, enable, enforce, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, level, perform, produce, realize, tackle), robar algo (plunder, take, touch), estar de acuerdo (agree, coincide, confirm, conform, correspond, see eye to eye with). (various references)

Swedish

tanka (fuel, refuel), ta på sig (Don, face up to, put on, take, undertake), fylla på (fuel, refill, refresh, replenish, restock, stock up), antaga (accept, admit, adopt, approve, assume, embrace, engage, expect, put on, suppose, take), anställa (bring about, employ, engage, hire, indent, make), åtaga sig (assume, engage). (various references)

Turkish

telaşlanmak (be alarmed, ferment, flap, fluster, get flurried), moda olmak (be fashionable, be in vogue, be the wear, catch on, come into vogue), kapışmak (claw, scramble for, snatch), iddiaya tutuşmak, heyecanlanmak (be excited, be hyped up, flush, fluster, get excited, hot up, loose countenance, stir, thrill, work oneself up), benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, correspond, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, look like, match, mimic, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take after, throw back), 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 in, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak), üzerine almak (arrogate to oneself, take upon oneself), üstlenmek (accept, assume, be stuck with, bear, stand, support, take over, take upon oneself, undertake, volunteer). (various references)

Ukrainian

набувати (acquire, contract), брати (nim, take, take in), боротися (antagonize, battle, buffet, champion, combat, contend, debate, fight, grapple, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, tussle, wrestle), приймати (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, initiate, receive, take in, take over, tidy). (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: atone, oaken, oaten, taken, token.

-2 letters: aeon, ante, etna, kane, kaon, keno, kent, keto, knot, koan, neat, nota, note, take, tank, teak, toea, toke, tone.

-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eon, eta, kae, kat, kea, ken, koa, nae, net, not, oak, oat, oka, oke, one, tae, tan, tao, tea, ten, toe, ton.

-4 letters: ae.

+2 letters: banknote, takedown.

+3 letters: antismoke, banknotes, kaolinite, lakefront, nonmarket, nonskater, outranked, overtaken, snakeroot, takedowns.

+4 letters: alpenstock, antismoker, breakfront, kaolinites, keratinous, lakefronts, mountebank, nonskaters, outflanked, outthanked, overtaking, snakeroots.

+5 letters: alpenstocks, antismokers, breakfronts, cabinetwork, cartoonlike, debarkation, embarkation, heartbroken, kinetoplast, kleptomania, knotgrasses, mountebanks, nonskeletal, outspeaking, overtalking, overtasking, phantomlike, zooplankter.