take out

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Definition
  1. Verb (transitive):
    • To remove something from a place, container, or situation: The core meaning involves extracting, withdrawing, or lifting something out.
    • To obtain something formally or officially: To secure something, like a document or permission, through an official process.
    • To buy prepared food from a restaurant to eat elsewhere: To purchase food for consumption off the premises.
    • To escort someone socially, especially on a date: To invite someone to go out, typically for entertainment or a meal.
    • To exclude or omit something: To prevent something from being included.
Usage and Examples

  • Removing something:

    • Please take out the trash.
    • The dentist will take out the damaged tooth.
    • She took a book out of her bag.

  • Obtaining something officially:

    • He went to the town hall to take out a building permit.
    • They decided to take out an insurance policy on their new car.

  • Buying prepared food:

    • Let's take out Chinese food for dinner tonight.
    • I'm too tired to cook; I'll just take out a pizza.

  • Inviting someone socially (on a date):

    • He finally got the courage to take her out for coffee.
    • They've been taking each other out for months.

  • Excluding something:

    • Take out any unnecessary details to make the report clearer.
Advanced Usage

  • "take it out on (someone)": To unfairly direct one's anger, frustration, or stress onto another person.

    • Just because you had a bad day at work, don't take it out on me.

  • "take out a loan": To borrow a sum of money from a bank or financial institution.

    • They had to take out a loan to pay for their daughter's university tuition.
Variants and Related Words
  • Takeout/Take-out (noun): Food that is cooked and sold by a restaurant to be eaten elsewhere.
    • We ordered takeout from the new Italian place.
  • Takeout/Take-out (adjective): Describing food meant to be eaten off the premises.
    • a takeout container; the takeout menu
Synonyms
  • Remove: to move or take something away from a position.
  • Extract: to carefully remove or obtain something, often with effort.
  • Withdraw: to remove money from an account or to take something back.
  • Exclude: to deliberately not include something.
  • Buy: to acquire something by paying for it (specific to the food context).
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Take out on: (see "Advanced Usage" above).
  • Take out against: (Less common) To secure an official order, like an injunction, against someone or something.
    • The company took out an injunction against the protestors.
Related Idioms
  • Take the sting out of (something): To make an unpleasant experience less painful or severe.
    • Her kind words took the sting out of the criticism.
  • Take a leaf out of someone's book: To imitate or follow someone's example because they are successful.
    • You should take a leaf out of your sister's book and start studying more seriously.
Verb
  1. prevent from being included or considered or accepted
    • The bad results were excluded from the report
    • Leave off the top piece
  2. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
  3. buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
    • We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
  4. remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
    • pull weeds
    • extract a bad tooth
    • take out a splinter
    • extract information from the telegram
  5. take liquid out of a container or well
    • She drew water from the barrel
  6. bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
    • draw a weapon
    • pull out a gun
    • The mugger pulled a knife on his victim
  7. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
    • She drew $2,000 from the account
    • The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank
  8. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
  9. remove something from a container or an enclosed space
  10. make a date
    • Has he asked you out yet?
  11. obtain by legal or official process
    • take out a license
    • take out a patent
  12. take out or remove
    • take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
  13. remove from its packing
    • unpack the presents
  14. cause to leave
    • The teacher took the children out of the classroom

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