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Take Out

Definition: Take Out

Take Out

Verb

1. Cause to leave; "The teacher took the children out of the classroom".

2. Remove from its packing; "unpack the presents".

3. Take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables".

4. Obtain by legal of official process; "take our a license"; "take out a patent".

5. Make a date; "Has he asked you out yet?".

6. Remove something from a container or an enclosed space.

7. Purchase prepared food to be eaten at home.

8. Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank".

9. Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim".

10. : take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel".

11. : draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram".

12. : take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.

13. : prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Take Out

Synonyms: ask out (v), buy food (v), draw (v), draw off (v), draw out (v), except (v), excerpt (v), exclude (v), extract (v), get out (v), invite out (v), leave off (v), leave out (v), move out (v), omit (v), pull (v), pull out (v), pull up (v), remove (v), take away (v), unpack (v), withdraw (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: add (v), deposit (v), include (v), pack (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Take Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Take Out

English words defined with "take out": Barway, bench, bring outcoinsureDisentomb, do away witheliminate, Estreat, excerpt, Exenterate, Exosstate, extractget out, get rid of, Gipinsurelift, lift outscoop, scoop out, scoop uptake away, take up, To sue out, To take outundock, Unhead, Unlade, Unplat, Unreeve, Unrivet, Unsew, Unshell, Unship, Unstitch, Unthread, Untooth. (references)
Specialty definitions using "take out": heading-and-bench mining, Howard's on the phone!lip screenTHE DIPusual mining privilegesWAITER/WAITRESS, TAKE OUT. (references)
Etymologies containing "take out": sackbut. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Take Out" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (take-out).

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Modern Usage: Take Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Did not just take out that chair. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

Figure we take out the terrorists. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart)

Morgan, I'm not going to Kelly's just because you like the take out girl. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

You did remember to take out an add in 'Adulterers Weekly'? (Sliding Doors; writing credit: Peter Howitt.)

If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out the entire city of people. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Lyrics

Take out the papers and the trash ("Yakety Yak"; performing artist: The Coasters)

Clever

Life lesson: Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Take Out the Beast (1995)

Dim Sum Take Out (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Take Out

DomainTitle

Books

  • Didn't I Tell You to Take Out the Trash: Techniques for Getting Kids to Do Chores Without Hassles (reference)

  • Double Take Out (Stevie Houston Mystery) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Take Out

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Take Out

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Phwat th' divil do they do wid all th' dort they take out ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Take Out

AuthorQuotation

Earl Wilson

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

John Gay

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Take Out

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Take out that yard battery before you make delivery.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Take Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Korea

Limits on how much money foreign and domestic travelers may take out of Korea per trip were dropped at the beginning of 2001. (references)

Taiwan

The small number of large capacity home ovens continue to restrict market growth for whole turkey sales to hotel / restaurant venues (for eat in and take out). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Take Out

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Bush

1989-1993Once building starts, carpenters and plumbers work, people buy homes and take out mortgages.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Take Out

Expressions using "take out": take out a patent take out a patent for take out a permit take out a subscription take out a subscription to take out a subscription to a magazine take out a summons against smb. take out an insurance take out of take out of pledge take out of service take out of the oven take out on To take out. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Take Out

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

take out

712

take out taxi

159

chinese take out box

84

take out food

33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Take Out

Language Translations for "take out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shoqëroj jashtë, pajisem me (obtain), nxjerr përjashta (oust), nxjerr nga, nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), marr (accede, acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in), laj (bathe, clear, do, elutriate, flush, liquidate, pay up, rinse out, scour, settle, sponge, wash), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, total, waste away), ‏تحصل (gain, obtain, procure, secure, snaffle), ‏إنطلق (career, dash, get away, go, lick, pull away, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start, start off, start out, tee off, waft), ‏إقتطع عمولة, ‏أخرج (bring out, direct, dispossess, draw out, egress, eject, fetch, get, give off, move out, obtrude, poke, produce, push along, quit, read out, realize, remove, set, shell off, subtract, vomit), ‏رافق (accompany, bring, bully, carry, chaperon, companion, company, escort, follow, join, pursue, see, see off, string, string along with, take, take along). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

качвам (bring up, emplane, enplane, entrain, increase, ride, ship), вадя (draw, extract, have out, lift, pull, pull out, take), отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, weed out), прихващам си, изчиствам (clean out, cleanse, clear out, get off), изваждам от строя (disable, incapacitate, sideline), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, wreck), vzít ven, vynést (announce, bring, bring in, carry out, deliver, fetch), vyjmout (except, subduct, withdraw), vybírat (choose, collect, handpick, pick, pick out), opatřit (fit out, furnish, get, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, raise, stock, store, supply). (various references)

   

Danish

  

frafalde (to take out, to waive), fortolde (to clear, to clear customs, to clear goods for customs, to clear goods through customs, to take out of bond), forpligtelse til at loese licens (obligation to take out a licence). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zich abonneren (to take out a subscription), verplichting tot het hebben van een vergunning (obligation to take out a licence), uitklaring (to clear, to clear customs, to clear goods for customs, to clear goods through customs, to take out of bond), inklaring (to clear, to clear customs, to clear goods for customs, to clear goods through customs, to take out of bond), een belang nemen in (to take out an interest in), een abonnement nemen (subscribe, subscribe to), buiten bedrijf stellen (to put out of operation, to put out of service, to take out of service). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ratkoa (rip, unpick), purkaa (demolish, discharge, dismantle, pull down, take apart, take to pieces, unbox, undo, unload, unpack, unpick), poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, withdraw, write off), ottaa esille (bring out, bring up, produce), esiin (bring up, forth, forward, out, produce). (various references)

   

French

  

soustraire (take away), sortir, se parcourir, ressortir, faire sortir, emporter (take, take away), démarrer, bousiller, arracher, accompagner (take, take along). (various references)

   

German

  

entfernen (abort, clearance, detach, dislodge, dispense with, do away with, excise, get rid of, oust, pick, remove, take off, to dislodge, to eliminate, to remove). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βγάζω (doff, elicit, get off, jab out, pump out, release, take off, weed out). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללוות (accompany, adhere, escort, string along with), ל"וציא (abstract, draw out, eliminate, issue, rout out, tap), ל"סיר (abstract, annul, eliminate, put aside, remove, rid, shed, shuffle off, strip, take away). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megszerez (achieve, acquire, attain, evict, get, obtain, procure, to attain, to clinch, to corral, to evict, to purchase, to take out), kivesz (elicit, get out, make out, pull out, to draw out, to except, to expel, to rent, to scour away, to take out, to unclench, to unclinch), kiszed (dug, print out, to dig, to disassemble, to elicit, to pick), kieszközöl (procure, to procure, to take out), elõvesz (put out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cavare (dig, draw, get, get off, obtain, pull out, scoop). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

取り出す (to pick out, to produce, to take out). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひき す (to draw out, to pull out, to take out, to withdraw), ひっぱり す (to drag out, to take out), つかみ す (to grab and throw, to take a handful of, to take out), つれ す (to take out), かり す (to borrow, to hunt out, to round up, to take out), もちかえる (to carry back or home, to take out), もち す (to bring out from where it belongs, to carry out, to take out), とり す (to pick out, to produce, to take out). (various references)

   

Manx

  

goaill magh (delete, evacuate, evacuation, move out, withdraw, withdraw as money, withdrawal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay outay

   

Portuguese

  

tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disbud, doff, drag out, force, get, get off, haul, iron out, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take off, tear off, vail, withdraw, wrest), extrair (bows, couch, drag out, draw, drew, educe, elicit, excerpt, extract, lug, poke about, pull, pump, winkle out). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scoate la plimbare, scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, utter), invita (ask, bid, book, call in, call on, invite, solicit, summon, tempt), desprinde (break away, break off, detach, disengage). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выводить на прогулку, выводить пятно, выводить (bred, breed, deduce, educe, extricate, recall, show out, type-out), вывести (move out), вынести (carry out), вынимать (lay out, roust), пригласить. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaključiti (close, conclude, gather, induce, infer, sign), vaditi (draw, extract, remove), uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, destroy, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out, wreck), izvesti (bring out, derive, embroider, export, perform, present, realize, stage), izvaditi (draw, extract, fish out, pull out, retrieve, withdraw), iznositi (amount, number, total, wear out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sacar (bring out, bring up, draw, draw out, educe, elicit, extract, fetch, get, let, produce, protract, put out, screw, take, throw in, throw out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ta ut (draw, draw on, draw out, pick out, tell off), skaffa sig (form, gain, take, win), gå ut med. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), yemeğe götürmek, dışarı çıkarmak (out, put out, turn out), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

зykarmak (pull at, remove, take off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

виводити (deduce, take off, withdraw), виймати (lay out), запросити. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Take Out

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

amoveo, desumo, exceperint, exceperunt, excepi, excepistis, excepit, excepta, exceptis, excepto, exceptoria, exceptus, excipe, excipere, excipiens, excipientes, excipies, excipiet, excipite, eximo. (various references)

Avestan200-600

nizhbaremnô. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ateon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Take Out

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 23, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOdhgoi tufloi oi diulizonteV ton kwnwpa thn de kamhlon katapinonteV
Latin405VulgateDuces caeci excolantes culicem camelum autem gluttientes
Old English990West SaxonLa blinde latteowas ge drenieð þannegnet aweig. & drinceð þa olfend.
Middle English1395WyclifBlynde lederis, clensinge a gnatte, but swolewynge a camel.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleYe blinde gydes which strayne out a gnat and swalowe a cammyll.
Jacobean English1611King JamesYe blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Victorian English1833WebsterYe blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Basic English1964OgdenYou blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Take Out

LanguageMatthew Chapter 23, Verse 24
CebuanoKamong mga magtotultol nga buta, ginasala ninyo ang usa ka buok nga tagnok ug ginalamoy ninyo ang usa ka buok nga kamelyo!
CroatianSlijepe voðe! Cijedite komarca, a gutate devu!"
DanishI blinde Vejledere, I, som si Myggen af, men nedsluge Kamelen!
DutchGij blinde leidslieden, die de mug uitzijgt, en den kemel doorzwelgt.
FinnishVoi teitä, kirjanoppineet ja fariseukset, te ulkokullatut, kun te puhdistatte maljan ja vadin ulkopuolen, mutta sisältä ne ovat täynnä ryöstöä ja hillittömyyttä!
FrenchConducteurs aveugles! qui coulez le moucheron, et qui avalez le chameau.
GermanIhr verblendeten Leiter, die ihr Mücken seihet und Kamele verschluckt!
Haitian CreoleNou menm k'ap kondi pèp la, nou se yon bann avèg pou tèt pa nou. Nou pase lèt la nan paswa pou nou wete ti mouch ki tonbe ladan li. Men, nou vale yon chwal!
HungarianVak vezérek, a kik megszûritek a szúnyogot, a tevét pedig elnyelitek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKalian pemimpin-pemimpin yang buta! Lalat dalam minumanmu kalian saring, padahal unta kalian telan!
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHai pemimpin yang buta, yang menapis nyamuk, tetapi menelan unta.
ItalianGuide cieche, che filtrate il moscerino e ingoiate il cammello!
Manx GaelicShiuish leeideilee doal, ta sheeley veue yn char-chuilag, agh sluggee shiu camel.
MaoriE nga kaiarahi matapo, e tatari nei i te waeroa, a horomia ake te kamera.
NorwegianI blinde veiledere, som avsiler myggen, men sluker kamelen!
PortugueseGuias cegos! que coais um mosquito, e engulis um camelo.   
RumanianPovqyuitori orbi, cari strecurayi yknyarul wi knghiyiyi cqmila!
RussianчПЦ"Й УМЕ ЩЕ, П"ЕЦЙЧБАЭЙЕ ЛПНБТБ, Б ЧЕТ'МА"Б ПЗМПЭБАЭЙЕ!
ShuarAtumka jintinkiartiniaitiatrum nékachu asarum kusuru ainiuitrume. Kutanam yajasmach enketu Wáinkiurmeka Júwitrume. Túrayatrum kamiriu Wáinkiurmeka kawai nankaamas uunt ain takamtsuk Kújawitrume.'
Spanish¡Guías ciegos, que coláis el mosquito pero tragáis el camello!
SwedishI blinde ledare, som silen bort myggan och sväljen kamelen!
UmaKoi' hewa towero to mpotete' doo. Koi' hewa tauna to mpolali koromu' nete' ngkai ue ininu-ni, hiaa' hama'a unta, to bohe lia, ni'ome' lau.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Take Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outtake, takeout.

Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-t-t-u"

-1 letter: outate, outeat.

-3 letters: auto, keto, take, tate, taut, teak, teat, toea, toke, tote, tout.

-4 letters: ate, att, auk, eat, eau, eta, kae, kat, kea, koa, kue, oak, oat, oka, oke, out, tae, tao, tat, tau, tea, tet, toe, tot, tut, uke, uta.

-5 letters: ae, at, et, ka, oe, ta, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outskate, outtakes, stakeout, takeouts.

 

+2 letters: outskated, outskates, outtalked, outtasked, stakeouts.

 

+3 letters: outthanked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Bible Trace
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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