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take down

take down
T t

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [teyk doun]
    • /teɪk daʊn/
    • /teɪk daʊn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [teyk doun]
    • /teɪk daʊn/

Definitions of take down words

  • adjective take down made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled. 1
  • adjective take down Finance. takeout (def 8). 1
  • noun take down the act of taking. 1
  • noun take down something that is taken. 1
  • noun take down the quantity of fish, game, etc., taken at one time. 1
  • noun take down an opinion or assessment: What's your take on the candidate? 1

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Origin of take down

First appearance:

before 1890
One of the 20% newest English words
First recorded in 1890-95; adj., noun use of verb phrase take down

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Parts of speech for Take down

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

take down popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 53% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

take down usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for take down

verb take down

  • authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
  • authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
  • bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.

Antonyms for take down

verb take down

  • build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
  • carpentering — a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
  • knock together — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • jerrybuild — To assemble a project in a hasty, low-quality manner, especially when cheap, low-quality and/or inappropriate materials are used.

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