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ontake

verb

Etymology

From Middle English ontaken, equivalent to on- + take. Compare Old English onniman (“to receive, take”).

  1. inherited from ontaken

Definitions

  1. To take on

    To take on; undertake; assume.

  2. To undertake a debt.

  3. A taking on

    A taking on; that which is taken on; acquisition.

    • [...] as only about 4 per cent of library ontake would be affected.
    • In very faulted seam zones unduly high power ontakes of the plough drives showed that the set values were already too high.
    • Ontake of existing data This is a step that can easily be underestimated both in its complexity and in the resources required.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ontake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA