英语词汇“take down a peg”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A board having holes into which pegs are placed, used for playing and scoring in games or for display or storage purposes

take down a peg (or two)

To bring down, deflate, humiliate or humble

take /tāk/

transitive verb (pat took; pap tāˈken)

To lay hold of
To get into one's possession
To seize, catch, capture
To captivate
To receive or come to have willingly or by an act of one's own
To pay for, buy or rent
To appropriate
To assume, adopt
To consider as an example
To accept
To receive
To admit
To submerge (Scot)
To have normally assigned to one
To find out, come upon, surprise, detect
To swallow or inhale
To eat or drink, often habitually
To apply to oneself
To obtain
To engage, secure
To seek and receive
To have recourse to
To make use of
To deal with or react to in a specified way
To teach (a subject or class)
To attend a course in
To undertake (a course) or attend (a regular class) in some subject
To visit
To call for, necessitate, use up
To remove
To cause to go
To subtract
To convey
To carry with one
To escort
To detract
To derive
To understand
To apprehend
(with it) to assume, suppose
To mistake
To conceive or think of
To accept as true
To tolerate or endure
To ascertain
To observe or measure
To ascertain something from
To execute, perform
To set down
To portray
To photograph
To charge oneself with
To declare solemnly
To strike
To come upon and affect
To bewitch or charm
To blight
To put an end to (someone's, or one's own, life)
To cheat, swindle or deceive (informal)
To deliver, give (obsolete)
To have sexual intercourse with (archaic)
To betake

intransitive verb

To have the intended effect
To be effective, to work
(of plants, esp grafted buds) to begin to grow shoots (cf strike)
To please the public
To betake oneself, begin
(of a fish) to bite
To make a capture or acquisition
To be capable of being taken
To become, fall, eg ill (informal)
To freeze (N American)
To cast a spell (Shakespeare)

noun

An act of taking, or of catching (eg the ball in rugby, etc)
A person's opinion of or perspective on a particular situation, concept, etc
A capture
Quantity taken on one occasion
The amount of money taken, eg from a business enterprise, admission charges, etc
The amount of film (eg one scene) photographed, music recorded, etc at any one time
The amount of copy set up by a printer at one time
A sign on the body (eg a rash) that a vaccine has been successful
A successful tissue graft

ORIGIN: Late OE tacan (pat tōc) to touch, take, from ON taka (pat tōk; pap tekinn)

takeˈable or tāˈkable adjective

tāˈken adjective (with with; informal)

Impressed or attracted by

tāˈker noun

tāˈking noun

The action of the verb in any sense
(usu in pl) that which is taken, receipts
Plight (Spenser)
Bewitchment, malignant influence (Shakespeare)
Agitation, perplexity (informal)

adjective

Captivating
Alluring
Infectious, catching

tāˈkingly adverb

tāˈkingness noun

tāˈky adjective (old informal)

Attractive

takeˈaway adjective

(of cooked food) sold for consumption away from the place of sale
(of a restaurant) selling such food

noun

Such a restaurant
A takeaway meal

takeˈ-down noun

A humiliation

adjective

Capable of being disassembled quickly

take-home pay noun

Pay after deduction of tax, etc

takeˈ-in noun

A deception, fraud or disappointment of hopes

takeˈ-leave noun

Leave-taking

takeˈ-off noun

A burlesque mimicking
The place, act or mode of leaving the ground for a jump, dive or flight (also figurative)
A drawback

take-off rocket noun (aeronautics)

A rocket used to assist the acceleration of an aircraft at take-off

takeˈout adjective (N American)

Takeaway

adjective and noun (bridge)

(of or designating) a conventional bid asking one's partner to bid a different suit

takeˈover noun

The acquirement of control of a business by purchase of a majority of its shares (also adjective)

takeˈ-up noun

The fact, or an instance, of taking up (ie using or accepting, or picking up)

take-up rate noun

The number of people, as a percentage of the total number eligible, who claim a benefit to which they are entitled or who accept an offer

tāking-offˈ noun

Removal, assassination

for the taking

Readily available to be taken (advantage of)

have what it takes

To possess the requisite skills, qualities, etc

on the take

Engaged in small-scale dishonest making of profit

take after

To resemble (eg a parent) in appearance or characteristics

take against

To take a dislike to
To oppose

take apart

To separate into component parts
To defeat convincingly (informal)
To criticize or scold severely (slang)

take away

To subtract
To carry somewhere else, remove
To detract (from)

take back

To retract, withdraw
To carry back (mentally) in time
To return to an original position
To regain possession of
To move (text) to the previous line (printing)

take down

To go above in class
To demolish, pull down or dismantle
To take to pieces
To report or write down to dictation
(of a man) to escort (a lady) to the dining room
(also, more usu, take down a peg) to humiliate to some degree
To reduce
To lower

take effect

To come off, succeed
To come into force

take five (or ten) (informal)

To take a short break of five (or ten) minutes

take for

To suppose to be, esp wrongly

take fright see under fright

take heed

To be careful
To pay attention

take in

To enclose
To comprise
To annex
To grasp, realize or understand
To accept as true
To cheat
To subscribe for, buy regularly
To receive into one's home, eg as a guest or lodger
To accept (work, eg washing) for doing in one's own home for payment
To tighten, contract, make smaller
To furl
To admit
To subdue
To visit (a place) or go to (a show, etc) esp as part of an itinerary or plan (esp US)
(of a man) to conduct (a lady) to the dining room (historical)

take in hand

To undertake
To undertake to reform, help or guide (someone)

take into one's head

To be seized with a notion

take in vain

To use (eg God's name) with unsuitable levity

take it

To assume
To endure punishment or bad luck without giving way or collapsing under the strain (informal)

take it from me

You can believe me, believe me when I say

take it from there

To deal with a situation appropriately, at whatever point it falls to one to do so

take it or leave it

To accept something with all its disadvantages, or else do without it

take it out of

To exhaust the strength or energy of
To exact the utmost from

take it out on

To make (an innocent person or object) suffer for one's anger or frustration
To vent one's bad temper, anger, etc on

take me with you (Shakespeare)

Let me understand what you mean

take notice

To observe
To show that observation is made
(with of) to remark upon

take off

To remove, detach
To mimic
To leave the ground for a jump or flight
To begin a rapid improvement, expansion, or surge in popularity
To depart or set out (informal)
To swallow

take on

To receive aboard
To agree to do, to undertake
To assume or acquire
To take into employment
To be very upset or distraught (informal)
To accept a challenge from (esp a stronger opponent)
(of ideas, etc) to gain acceptance

take out

To remove from within
To extract
To go out with, escort
To obtain (eg a licence) on application
To receive an equivalent for
To copy (Shakespeare)
To kill, destroy or defeat (slang)
To bid a different suit from (one's partner) (bridge)

take over

To receive by transfer
To convey across
To assume control of
To move (text) to the following line (printing)

take someone out of himself or herself

To make someone forget his or her problems or worries

take someone up on

To accept someone's offer or challenge with respect to
To challenge someone over (a statement, point, etc)

take to

To make for, take oneself off to
To adapt oneself to
To become fond of, to begin to do regularly as a habit

take to pieces

To separate into component parts

take to task

To call to account, reprove

take to wife (archaic)

To marry

take up

To lift, raise or collect
To pick up for use
To absorb
To accept (an offer)
To adopt the practice, study, etc, of, begin to go in for
To begin to patronize, seek to advance
To become interested in and begin to do
To discuss with
To shorten (a garment)
To engross, occupy or fill fully
To interrupt sharply
To arrest
To resume
To take in hand
To buy up
To settle, compound (a quarrel) (Shakespeare)
To reprove (Shakespeare)
To cope with (Shakespeare)
To obtain on credit (Shakespeare)
(usu in passive) to interest, please (with about or with)
To borrow
To secure, fasten

take upon oneself

To assume
To presume
To take responsibility for
To undertake
To feign, make believe (Shakespeare)

take up with

To begin to associate with, form a connection with

peg /peg/

take /tāk/