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Definitions: Takeout |
TakeoutAdjective1. Of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises; "takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter" (`take-away' is chiefly British). Noun1. 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. |
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Mining | Cumb. An outcrop. As a verb, to crop out. (references) |
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Synonyms: TakeoutSynonyms: take-away (adj), takeout food (n). (additional references) |
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 SHOP ♦ FAST-FOODS WORKER ♦ takeout commitment, takeout loan, takeout mortgage loan ♦ waiter/waitress, counter. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Takeout Torture (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Rock paintings near the takeout at the end of section 2 in the John Day River.Credit: John Craig. | |
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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) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "takeout": takeout food ♦ takeout mortgage loan. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "takeout": takeouts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "takeout": stakeout. (additional references) | |
Words containing "takeout": stakeouts. (additional references) | |
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"Takeout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Taikoo, Takamoto, tieout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "takeout" (pronounced tā"kou't) |
| 5 | t ā" k ou' t | stakeout. |
| 4 | -ā" k ou' t | breakout, shakeout. |
| 3 | -k ou' t | blackout, checkout, cookout, knockout, lockout, lookout, strikeout, walkout, workout. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6B 65 6F 75 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -.- . --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a k e o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006B 0065 006F 0075 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54677771818786 |
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