See take in hand on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Possibly by analogy with a rider or stablehand taking the reins of a horse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes in hand",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking in hand",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took in hand",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken in hand",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "takes in hand",
"2": "taking in hand",
"3": "took in hand",
"4": "taken in hand"
},
"expansion": "take in hand (third-person singular simple present takes in hand, present participle taking in hand, simple past took in hand, past participle taken in hand)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 7:19:",
"text": "But thinke not thou that takest in hand to striue against God, that thou shalt escape vnpunished.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985, “Barbarism Begins At Home”, in Meat Is Murder, performed by The Smiths:",
"text": "Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take charge, especially for purposes of discipline or improvement."
],
"id": "en-take_in_hand-en-verb-2ALM1fTF",
"links": [
[
"take charge",
"take charge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) To take charge, especially for purposes of discipline or improvement."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to take charge",
"word": "prendre en main"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsg",
"sense": "to take charge",
"word": "cymryd mewn llaw"
}
]
}
],
"word": "take in hand"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Possibly by analogy with a rider or stablehand taking the reins of a horse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "takes in hand",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "taking in hand",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "took in hand",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "taken in hand",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "takes in hand",
"2": "taking in hand",
"3": "took in hand",
"4": "taken in hand"
},
"expansion": "take in hand (third-person singular simple present takes in hand, present participle taking in hand, simple past took in hand, past participle taken in hand)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 7:19:",
"text": "But thinke not thou that takest in hand to striue against God, that thou shalt escape vnpunished.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985, “Barbarism Begins At Home”, in Meat Is Murder, performed by The Smiths:",
"text": "Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take charge, especially for purposes of discipline or improvement."
],
"links": [
[
"take charge",
"take charge"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) To take charge, especially for purposes of discipline or improvement."
],
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to take charge",
"word": "prendre en main"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsg",
"sense": "to take charge",
"word": "cymryd mewn llaw"
}
],
"word": "take in hand"
}
Download raw JSONL data for take in hand meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.