Retake

Definitions: Retake

Retake

Noun

1. A shot or scene that is photographed again.

Verb

1. Take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort".

2. Capture again, as of an escaped prisoner.

3. Shoot again: "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times", as of film.

4. Photograph again; "Please retake that scene".

Date "retake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Retake

Synonyms: recapture (v), reshoot (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taking	Retake, resume; recover.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	A Retake Please!: Night Mail to Western Approaches (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Raymond Loewy Associates, "Look" kitchen. Retake kitchen, no figure.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	He that forces my horse from me, ought presently to restore him, and I have still a right to retake him. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To drive out the tyrant or to drive out the English is, in either case, to retake your territory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Nigeria	For example, the Catholic Church in Zamfara State has been unable to retake possession of a clinic that was confiscated during a period of military rule in the 1970's. Renewal of the CO for the church building was approved; however, the Church has been unable to obtain a CO to reoccupy the clinic building and the adjoining land. (references)
Economic History	Cote d'Ivoire	Still a regional economic powerhouse, Cote d'Ivoire hopes to retake its place in regional stability. (references)
	Bolivia	The Bolivian army was sent to retake the mines, and in the ensuing confrontation there were several civilian deaths and one military death. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Retake" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.85% of the time. "Retake" is used about 47 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80.85%	38	55,818
Noun (singular)	12.77%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.26%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	2.13%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	47	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "retake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rixhiroj, rimarr (recapture, recover, regain). (various references)

Arabic		‏عاود الاستيلاء على, ‏صورة ثانية, ‏صور ثانية, ‏إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retrieve, return, take back, withdraw), ‏أخذ ثانية. (various references)

Bulgarian		фотографирам отново, вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, levy, load, partake, pick up, pot, take, take away, take in, take up), превземам отново, правя дубъл. (various references)

Chinese		再拿 (retaking). (various references)

Czech		znovudobytí, znovu natoèit, opakovaný zábìr, opakování (iterance, recurrence, rehearsal, reiteration, repetition, revision), dobýt zpìt. (various references)

Danish		omskud. (various references)

Dutch		heropname (re-recording). (various references)

French		reprise (recapture, recovery, renewal, repeat, repetition, reprise, resumed, resumption, retrieval, revival, rework), reprendre (rebuke, renew, reopen, repay, reproach, reprove, restart, resume), répétition (recurrence, rehearsal, reiteration, repeat, repetition), plan refait, nouvelle prise de vue, faire une nouvelle prise. (various references)

German		Wiederholung (duplication, iteration, rebroadcast, recapitulation, recurrence, reiteration, reiterativeness, repeat, repeating, repetition, replay, rerun, retaking, retry, revision, systrophe). (various references)

Greek		ξαναπαίρνω (get back, recover, repossess, ring back, take back), ξανατράβηγμα, νέα λήψη, επανάληψη λήψης, λαμβάνω πάλι. (various references)

Hebrew		לצלם שוב, צלום שני. (various references)

Hungarian		visszafoglal (recapture, to recapture, to resume). (various references)

Italian		ripetizione di ripresa, ridare un esame, ricatturare, girare di nuovo, fare nuova ripresa, esame di riparazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		撮り直す (to retake). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりなおす (to re-grip, to retake, to re-wrestle). (various references)

Manx		goaill reesht, aaghlackey. (various references)

Pig Latin		etakeray

Portuguese		retomar (recapture, resume). (various references)

Romanian		relua (continue, reassume, recur to, renew, reopen, resume, revive). (various references)

Russian		снова взять. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovo uzeti, ponovno uzimanje. (various references)

Spanish		repetir (echo, encore, follow up, play back, re echo, repeat, replay, retail), repetición (copy, echo, encore, recurrence, recursion, repeat, repetition, replay, rerun), refilmación, reconquistar (recapture, reconquer, win back), volver a tomar (claw back, recapture, reman), presentarse segunda vez a, nueva toma. (various references)

Swedish		återintaga. (various references)

Thai		ถ่ายภาพอีก, การถ่ายภาพอีก, ยึดกลับคืน. (various references)

Turkish		yeni çekim yapmak, yeni çekim, tekrar almak, tekrar çekmek, geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retract, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw), filmden resim çekmek. (various references)

Ukranian		знову взяти, повторна зйомка, повторний кадр, перезнімати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retake": retaken, retaker, retakers, retakes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "retake": caretake. (additional references)
	Words containing "retake": caretaken, caretaker, caretakers, caretakes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Retake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eetzky, Eretage, Rabaka, Ratak, ratskag, Rattakul, Rayak, Redlake, refake, Rentacar, restoke, reta, retaker, retaxe, retic, Retsky, rigaku, Roethke, rusalki, Rutaceae, Uegaki. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "retake" (pronounced rē"tā"k or rētā"k)
3	-t ā" k	mistake, partake, stake, steak, take.
3	-t ā" k	mistake, partake, stake, steak, take.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-r-t"
	-1 letter: arete, eater, rakee, taker.
	-2 letters: akee, kart, keet, rake, rate, reek, rete, take, tare, teak, tear, tree, trek.
	-3 letters: are, ark, art, ate, ear, eat, eke, era, ere, eta, kae, kat, kea, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee.
	-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, ka, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-r-t"
	+1 letter: hektare, meerkat, retaken, retaker, retakes.
	+2 letters: ankerite, caretake, hektares, keratose, marketed, marketer, meerkats, overtake, parakeet, racketed, rejacket, remarket, retacked, retackle, retakers, streaked, streaker, takeover, teamaker, telemark, tweakier.
	+3 letters: afterdeck, ankerites, bracketed, caretaken, caretaker, caretakes, creakiest, dekaliter, dekameter, earthlike, eukaryote, freakiest, jerkwater, keratoses, marketeer, marketers, newmarket, overtaken, overtakes, parakeets, parrakeet, premarket, racketeer, racketier, rejackets, remarkets, restacked, retackled, retackles, retracked, streakers, streakier, takeovers, teamakers, telemarks, undertake.
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