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Takeout

Definitions: Takeout

Takeout

Adjective

1. Of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises; "takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter" (`take-away' is chiefly British).

Noun

1. Food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises.

2. (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit.

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



Specialty Definitions: Takeout

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Cumb. An outcrop. As a verb, to crop out. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Takeout

Synonyms: take-away (adj), takeout food (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Takeout

English words defined with "takeout": take-away, takeout food. (references)
Specialty definitions using "takeout": cashier, fast foods restaurant, COUNTER ATTENDANT, LUNCHROOM OR COFFEE SHOPFAST-FOODS WORKERtakeout commitment, takeout loan, takeout mortgage loanwaiter/waitress, counter. (references)

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Modern Usage: Takeout

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Takeout Torture (1990)

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

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Commercial Usage: Takeout

DomainTitle

Books

  • Atlanta Takeout (reference)

  • Doubles for takeout, penalties, and profit in contract bridge (reference)

  • New York Eats: The Food Shoppers Guide to the Freshest Ingredients, the Best Takeout and Baked Goods and the Most Unsual Marketplaces in All of N Y (reference)

  • Takeout Foods a Consumer Study (reference)

  • Takeout for Two (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Takeout

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Takeout

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Rock paintings near the takeout at the end of section 2 in the John Day River.Credit: John Craig.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Takeout

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The Pizza Hut Express concept of selling pizza slices as takeout food has been a successful sales initiative. (references)

Economic History

Japan

The growth in import demand in 1999 was largely driven by continued strong HRI/HMR demand, particularly from fast food beef bowl chains, hamburger steaks at family restaurants, `yakiniku - Korean style barbecue' at Korean style barbecue chains and beef barbecue lunch box sold at takeout lunch box chains and convenience store chains, including inexpensive frozen beef parts like short plate, brisket and clod. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Takeout

"Takeout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Takeout" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Takeout

Expressions using "takeout": takeout food takeout mortgage loan. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Takeout

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

takeout taxi

115

takeout

24

chinese takeout

10

takeout tarheel

10

takeout taxi atlanta

8

takeout taxi.com

6

takeout menu

4

takeout box

4

chinese container takeout

4

takeout food

4
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Modern Translations: Takeout

Language Translations for "takeout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

外卖. (various references)

   

Danish

  

takeout-prioritetslån (takeout mortgage loan), opfyldelsesprioritetslån (takeout mortgage loan). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vervroegde hypotheekbetaling (takeout mortgage loan). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pitkäaikainen kiinnelaina (takeout mortgage loan). (various references)

   

French

  

poulet emporter (takeout chicken, take-out chicken). (various references)

   

German

  

Hypothekenablösedarlehen (takeout mortgage loan). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eltávolítás (ablation, decapitation, extraction, removal), étel hazavitelre. (various references)

   

Italian

  

prestito ipotecario di liquidazione (takeout mortgage loan). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ツェツェ (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, thulium, tree, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword), 持ち帰り . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

テークアウト , もちかえり. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akeouttay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

para levar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

на вынос (takeouts). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

para llevar. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เตรียมอาหารไปกินนอกบ้าน, อาหารไปกินนอกบ้าน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tasfiye (cleanup, clearance, close out, combout, dissolution, house cleaning, liquidation, purge, purification, refinement, settlement, winding up), paket servisi olan restoran (takeaway), paket servisi olan, paket (cover, pack, package, packet, parcel, takeaway). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Takeout

Derivations

Words beginning with "takeout": takeouts. (additional references)

Words ending with "takeout": stakeout. (additional references)

Words containing "takeout": stakeouts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Takeout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Taikoo, Takamoto, tieout. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Takeout"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "takeout" (pronounced tā"kou't)
5t ā" k ou' tstakeout.
4-ā" k ou' tbreakout, shakeout.
3-k ou' tblackout, checkout, cookout, knockout, lockout, lookout, strikeout, walkout, workout.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Takeout

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outtake.

Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outate, outeat.

-3 letters: auto, keto, take, tate, taut, teak, teat, toea, toke, tote, tout.

-4 letters: ate, att, auk, eat, eau, eta, kae, kat, kea, koa, kue, oak, oat, oka, oke, out, tae, tao, tat, tau, tea, tet, toe, tot, tut, uke, uta.

-5 letters: ae, at, et, ka, oe, ta, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outskate, outtakes, stakeout, takeouts.

 

+2 letters: outskated, outskates, outtalked, outtasked, stakeouts.

 

+3 letters: outthanked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Takeout


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 6B 65 6F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    -.-    .    ---    ..-    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#111 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006B 0065 006F 0075 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54677771818786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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