take part

present singular third person takes part · participle present taking part · past took part · participle past taken part

1. idiomaticintransitiveTo participate or join.

   I listened to a discussion in which she took part.

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   He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.

   Those who took part in the Smell Survey faced two major challenges—the first, to detect the odors described below; the second, to identify them correctly.

   1987 October, Avery N. Gilbert and Charles J. Wysocki, “Results of the Smell Survey”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 516

   They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.

   2000, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Women, Violence and War, →ISBN

   Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life.

   2016, Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot, The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture, →ISBN

2. idiomaticTo share or partake.

   So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness.

   1829, Jabez Burns, The Christian's sketch book, page 96

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   We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native.

   2007, S. A. Nnolim, The History of Umuchu, →ISBN, page 50

   Importantly now, all of the parishioners were expected to participate in singing God's praise and at communion received the bread and wine at tables set out for all to take part.

   2012, Alastair Hendry, The Parish Churches of Loudoun and their Clergy up to 1845, →ISBN, page 39

3. datedTo support or ally oneself (with).

   When the Spaniards were formerly contending against France, the noble earl said he felt for them, but he then recommended a cautious and prudent line of conduct to this country, and advised us not to take part with Spain.

   1824, The Parliamentary Debates - Volume 9, page 195

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   Yet we take part, on the whole, with the author : — and heartily wish him success in the great object of vindicating his country from unmerited aspersions, and trying to make us, in England, ashamed of the vices and defects which he has taken the trouble to point out in our national character and institutions.

   1820, Charles Kitchell Gardner, The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review

   At any time, if the French or any country Powers of Malabar shall design to come against the Honourable English Company, or the said Honourable English Company shall propose going against any of the above mentioned, I oblige myself, by this writing, to act entirely on the part of the Honourable English Company, and to assist them readily with 300 men armed with my fire arms, at all times that the Chief of Tellicherry shall advise or ask me, and in no respect will I take part with them, who may be the Honourable Company's enemies.

   1891, William Logan, A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Other Papers of Importance, →ISBN, page 61