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Princeton's WordNet

  1. takeout, takeout food, takeawaynoun

    prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises

    "in England they call takeout food `takeaway'"

  2. takeawaynoun

    a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures

  3. takeawayadjective

    the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)

  4. 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"

  5. 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"

  6. 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"

  7. take away, take outverb

    take out or remove

    "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"

  8. take awayverb

    take from a person or place

    "We took the abused child away from its parents"

  9. 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"

  10. 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"

  11. take away, detractverb

    take away a part from; diminish

    "His bad manners detract from his good character"

Wiktionary

  1. take-awayadjective

    of, or relating to food intended to be eaten off the premises

Wikipedia

  1. 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

  1. 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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of take-away in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of take-away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of take-away in a Sentence

  1. Jim Inhofe:

    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.

  2. Tom Hanks:

    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.

  3. Karen Abrams:

    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.

  4. Thieme Bosman:

    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.

  5. Billie Eilish:

    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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