took
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Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
K O T
Two-Letter Start
TO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
OK
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- TO start
- OK ending
- repeated letters
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- took is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include k, o, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The OK ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the TO start.
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Pronunciation
verb
To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force.
"I'll take that plate off the table."
verb
To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
"The camera takes 35mm film."
verb
To remove.
"take two eggs from the carton"
verb
To have sex with.
verb
To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
"Don't try to take that guy. He's bigger than you."
verb
To grasp or grip.
"He took her hand in his."
verb
To select or choose; to pick.
"I'll take the blue plates."
verb
To adopt (select) as one's own.
"She took his side in every argument."
verb
To carry or lead (something or someone).
"I'll take the plate with me."
verb
To use as a means of transportation.
"He took the bus to London, and then took a train to Manchester."
verb
To visit; to include in a course of travel.
verb
To obtain for use by payment or lease.
"He took a full-page ad in the Times."
verb
To consume.
verb
To experience, undergo, or endure.
verb
To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
"He had to take it apart to fix it."
verb
To regard in a specified way.
"He took the news badly."
verb
To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
"took a dim view of city officials"
verb
To understand (especially in a specified way).
"Don't take my comments as an insult."
verb
To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
"He took all the credit for the project, although he had done almost none of the work."
verb
To believe, to accept the statements of.
"take her word for it"
verb
To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
"Do you take me for a fool?"
verb
To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
"I'm not sure what moral to take from that story."
verb
To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
""As I Lay Dying" takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey""
verb
To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
"took a chill"
verb
To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
verb
To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
"took her attention"
verb
(of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
"cloth that takes dye well"
verb
(of a ship) To let in (water).
verb
To require.
"Finishing this on schedule will take a lot of overtime."
verb
To proceed to fill.
"He took a seat in the front row."
verb
To fill, to use up (time or space).
"His collection takes a lot of space."
verb
To avail oneself of.
"He took that opportunity to leave France."
verb
To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
"Pirès ran in to take the kick."
verb
To assume or perform (a form or role).
verb
To bind oneself by.
"he took the oath of office last night"
verb
To move into.
"the next team took the field"
verb
To go into, through, or along.
"go down two blocks and take the next left"
verb
To have and use one's recourse to.
"take cover/shelter/refuge"
verb
To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
"take a census"
verb
To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
"He took a mental inventory of his supplies."
verb
To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
"Could you take a picture of us?"
verb
To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
"The photographer will take you sitting down."
verb
To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
"took me for ten grand"
verb
(now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
"As a child, she took ballet."
verb
To deal with.
"take matters as they arise"
verb
To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
"I've had a lot of problems recently: take last Monday, for example. My car broke down on the way to work. Then ... etc."
verb
To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
"He'll probably take this one."
verb
To accept as an input to a relation.
verb
To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
"My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He just takes and takes; he never gives."
verb
To engage, take hold or have effect.
verb
To become; to be affected in a specified way.
"She took sick with the flu."
verb
(possibly obsolete) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
verb
An intensifier.
verb
To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
verb
(obsolete outside dialectal and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.
"He took me a blow on the head."