take for

take for
Synonyms and related words:
account as, assume, be afraid, believe, conceive, conclude, consider, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, gather, grant, guess, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, imagine, infer, judge, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, opine, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, repute, say, set down as, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, trow, understand, view as, ween

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  • take for — {v.} To suppose to be; mistake for. * /Do you take me for a fool?/ * /At first sight you would take him for a football player, not a poet./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for — {v.} To suppose to be; mistake for. * /Do you take me for a fool?/ * /At first sight you would take him for a football player, not a poet./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for granted — {v. phr.} 1. To suppose or understand to be true. * /Mr. Harper took for granted that the invitation included his wife./ * /A teacher cannot take it for granted that students always do their homework./ Compare: BEG THE QUESTION. 2. To accept or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for granted — {v. phr.} 1. To suppose or understand to be true. * /Mr. Harper took for granted that the invitation included his wife./ * /A teacher cannot take it for granted that students always do their homework./ Compare: BEG THE QUESTION. 2. To accept or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for a ride — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To take out in a car intending to murder. * /The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride./ 2. To play a trick on; fool. * /The girls told Linda that a movie star was visiting the school, but she did… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for a ride — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To take out in a car intending to murder. * /The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride./ 2. To play a trick on; fool. * /The girls told Linda that a movie star was visiting the school, but she did… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • take for granted — verb a) To assume something to be true without verification or proof. Let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that… …   Wiktionary

  • take for — phrasal to suppose to be; especially to suppose mistakenly to be …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • take for a ride — phrasal trick, cheat …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • take for granted — phrasal 1. to assume as true, real, or expected 2. to value too lightly …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Take — Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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