take out


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Take-out
Take-out or takeout (in North American and Philippine English); also carry-out (in U.S. and Scotland); take-away (in the United Kingdom other than ScotlandAustraliaNew ZealandSouth AfricaHong Kong, and Ireland), parcel (in Indian English and Pakistani English), refers to prepared meals or other food items, purchased at a restaurant, that the purchaser intends to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is now common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.

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WordNet 2.0Download this dictionary
take out

Verb
1. cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"
(synonym) move out, remove
(hyponym) clear
(cause) move
2. remove from its packing; "unpack the presents"
(synonym) unpack
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) bring out, get out
3. take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
(synonym) take away
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) bus
4. obtain by legal of official process; "take our a license"; "take out a patent"
(hypernym) obtain
5. make a date; "Has he asked you out yet?"
(synonym) ask out, invite out
(hypernym) request, bespeak, call for, quest
6. remove something from a container or an enclosed space
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) pulp
7. purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
(synonym) buy food
(hypernym) buy, purchase
8. 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"
(synonym) withdraw, draw, draw off
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) cheque, check out
(verb-group) draw
9. 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"
(synonym) draw, pull, pull out, get out
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) unsheathe
(verb-group) draw
10. take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel"
(synonym) draw
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) milk
(verb-group) draw, pull, pull out, get out
11. draw or pull out, 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"
(synonym) extract, pull out, pull, pull up, draw out
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) wring out, squeeze out
(verb-group) draw, pull, pull out, get out
12. 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"
(synonym) take away
(hypernym) eat
(derivation) takeout, takeout food, takeaway
13. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
(synonym) excerpt, extract
(hypernym) choose, take, select, pick out
14. prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
(synonym) exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit
(hypernym) eliminate, get rid of, do away with
(hyponym) elide


Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance GlossaryDownload this dictionary
Take-out
A cash surplus generated by the sale of one block of securities and the purchase of another, e.g. selling a block of bonds at 99 and buying another block at 95. Also, a bid made to a seller of a security that is designed (and generally agreed) to take him out of the market.
ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITIONDownload this dictionary
take out
escort or go on a date with someone I finally had a chance to take out the new woman from work last week.

Moby ThesaurusDownload this dictionary
take out
Synonyms and related words:
abscind, amputate, annihilate, attend, avulse, ban, bar, bob, chaperon, clear away, clip, conduct, convoy, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, deracinate, dig out, dig up, discount, disentangle, dock, draw, draw back, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, escort, esquire, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excise, exclude, exsect, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, get out, gouge out, grub up, guard, guide, isolate, knock off, lead, lop, marshal, mine, mutilate, nip, pare, peel, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, prune, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, root out, root up, rule out, see, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shepherd, squire, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take away, take off, tear out, truncate, unearth, unravel, uproot, usher, wait on, weed out, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.