take in
/teɪk‿ˈɪn/ 动词- To receive. · The company took in more than forty million euros last year.
- To receive and properly absorb or comprehend. · The news is a lot to take in right now.· I was so sleepy that I hardly took in any of the lecture.
- To enjoy or appreciate. · I'm just going to sit on a bench and take in the scenery.· Just relax and take in the fresh ocean air.
- To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home. · take in a stray cat
- To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee. · In hard times, some women would take in washing and others dressmaking repairs.
- To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller. · Try taking the skirt in a little around the waist.
- To attend a showing of. · take in a show· take in a movie
- To deceive; to hoodwink. · Their grandma lost thousands of dollars because she was taken in by scammers.
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For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
“No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to the crew, he said, “Bear a hand there, to take in sail!”
They turned the bowsprit towards Sardinia, where they intended to take in a cargo, which was to replace what had been discharged.
Take in the studding-sails and stow the flying jib.’ It was time; the squall was on us, and the vessel began to heel.
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