take out

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The phrase "take out" is a versatile English verb that can have several meanings depending on the context. Here’s an easy explanation for new learners:

Basic Meaning

1. To Remove Something: This is perhaps the most common meaning. It refers to taking something from a place where it is located.

   • Example: "Please take out the trash." (This means to remove the trash from the house and place it outside.)

2. To Buy Food: "Take out" can also refer to buying food from a restaurant to eat elsewhere, often at home.

   • Example: "Let’s take out some pizza for dinner." (This means to order pizza from a restaurant and bring it home.)

Usage Instructions

• Use "take out" when you want to talk about removing something from a container or place.
• Use it when discussing ordering food to eat off the premises.

Advanced Usage

• "Take out" can also mean to obtain something through an official process, such as a license, patent, or loan.
  • Example: "He took out a loan to buy a new car."

Word Variants

• Took out (past tense): "She took out the books from her bag."
• Taking out (present participle): "I am taking out the old furniture."

Different Meanings

• To Extract: This can refer to removing something with effort.

  • Example: "He took out a splinter from his finger."

• To Draw Liquid: It can refer to removing liquid from a container.

  • Example: "She took out some water from the well."

Synonyms

• Remove
• Extract
• Withdraw
• Obtain (when referring to licenses or permits)

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

• Take someone out: This can mean to go on a date with someone.

  • Example: "He wants to take her out for dinner."

• Take out insurance: To purchase an insurance policy.

  • Example: "It’s wise to take out health insurance."

Summary

"Take out" is a flexible verb that can mean to remove something, buy food to eat elsewhere, or obtain something officially.

Academic

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

Synonyms

• exclude
• except
• leave out
• leave off
• omit
• excerpt
• extract
• take away
• pull out
• pull
• pull up
• draw out
• draw
• get out
• withdraw
• draw off
• buy food
• ask out
• invite out
• unpack
• move out
• remove