take silk in English

Audio: En-au-take silk.ogg

Forms: takes silk [present, singular, third-person], taking silk [participle, present], took silk [past], taken silk [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: In reference to the silk gowns they wear. Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> silk}} take silk (third-person singular simple present takes silk, present participle taking silk, simple past took silk, past participle taken silk)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to the silk gowns they wear.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes silk",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking silk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took silk",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken silk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> silk"
      },
      "expansion": "take silk (third-person singular simple present takes silk, present participle taking silk, simple past took silk, past participle taken silk)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)"
      ],
      "id": "en-take_silk-en-verb-KQUEzf6F",
      "links": [
        [
          "Queen's Counsel",
          "Queen's Counsel"
        ],
        [
          "QC",
          "QC"
        ],
        [
          "King's Counsel",
          "King's Counsel"
        ],
        [
          "KC",
          "KC"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-take silk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-au-take_silk.ogg/En-au-take_silk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-au-take_silk.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take silk"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to the silk gowns they wear.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes silk",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking silk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took silk",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken silk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> silk"
      },
      "expansion": "take silk (third-person singular simple present takes silk, present participle taking silk, simple past took silk, past participle taken silk)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Queen's Counsel",
          "Queen's Counsel"
        ],
        [
          "QC",
          "QC"
        ],
        [
          "King's Counsel",
          "King's Counsel"
        ],
        [
          "KC",
          "KC"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-take silk.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-au-take_silk.ogg/En-au-take_silk.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-au-take_silk.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take silk"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). 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.

"take silk" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms