What does take-away mean?
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take-away
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Princeton's WordNet
takeout, takeout food, takeawaynoun
prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises
"in England they call takeout food `takeaway'"
takeawaynoun
a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures
takeawayadjective
the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)
takeout, take-awayverb
of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises
"takeout pizza"; "the takeout counter"; "`take-away' is chiefly British"
take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry offverb
remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
"Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
remove, take, take away, withdrawverb
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
"remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
take away, take outverb
take out or remove
"take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
take awayverb
take from a person or place
"We took the abused child away from its parents"
take out, take awayverb
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"
remove, take awayverb
get rid of something abstract
"The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"
take away, detractverb
take away a part from; diminish
"His bad manners detract from his good character"
Wiktionary
take-awayadjective
of, or relating to food intended to be eaten off the premises
Wikipedia
take-away
A take-out or takeout (U.S., Canada and the Philippines); carry-out or to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. and Canada); takeaway (England, Wales, Australia, Lebanon, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and occasionally in North America); takeaways (India, New Zealand); grab-n-go; and parcel (Bangladesh, Pakistan) is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. A concept found in many ancient cultures, take-out food is common worldwide, with a number of different cuisines and dishes on offer.
ChatGPT
take-away
Take-away, often used in context as 'the take-away,' is a main point, conclusion, or essential information obtained or derived from a situation, experience, meeting, research, discussion, or any form of human interaction. It refers to the key piece of knowledge or understanding that one retains or learns from something. In another context, especially in British English, a take-away refers to a meal or food that is prepared in a restaurant but taken elsewhere to be consumed, typically known as 'takeout' in American English. In this case, it represents a service provided by a restaurant where the customer can carry the prepared meal away with them to eat it in another location.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of take-away in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of take-away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of take-away in a Sentence
Every time there’s an incident, people somehow think if you take away guns from law-abiding citizens, the criminal element will give up their guns voluntarily, it doesn’t make sense to me.
But Bob Zemeckis says,' I don't know, it's a minefield, Colonel Tom Parker, it's a minefield. Tom Hanks never know what people are gon na take away from it.' And it ends up being, Tom Hanks know, that thing.
What this did to me and for me was take away my peace, take away the fact that my grandchildren and children can live in a community like this that's safe, i've got to do something to help change the laws. I don't know how I'm going to do it, I haven't quite figured that out yet, but I will. You'll see.
There are quite a lot of tourists already here and it does kind of take away the experience of being in a completely abandoned town, so I think if more and more tourists come here that will ruin the experience.
I didn’t die, and I wasn’t gonna die, but that does not take away from how miserable it was. It was terrible, i still have side effects. I was sick for, like, two months almost.
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