takeaway

«takeaway» in Mova's school dictionary: a meal you buy cooked from a shop or restaurant and eat… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a takeaway, takeaways); adjective (takeaway food)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A takeaway is a meal you buy cooked from a shop or restaurant and eat at home; the shop itself is also called a takeaway (in the USA and Canada: takeout). tree →

2) (informal) A takeaway is the main idea or lesson you remember from a talk or meeting. tree →

3) (maths, UK, informal) "Take away" means subtract; "8 take away 3 is 5". tree →

sense in the lessons

On Friday nights many families get a takeaway: fish and chips, pizza, curry or Chinese. In maths younger pupils say "take away" for minus (two words). In meetings adults ask "What's the key takeaway?" meaning the main point. Phrases: get a takeaway, order a takeaway, the Chinese takeaway, the key takeaway.

examples

• Let's get a takeaway tonight — Dad's too tired to cook. tree →
• We ordered a curry from the takeaway on the high street. tree →
• The pizza takeaway delivers to our door. tree →
• My takeaway from the assembly was to be kind online. tree →
• Ten take away four leaves six. tree →
• In Canada we call it takeout, not takeaway. tree →

note

One word for the food or shop (takeaway); two words for the maths action (take away). "Take away" in a word problem tells you to subtract: 12 take away 5 = 7. US/Canada: takeout. Countable: a takeaway, two takeaways.

In the corpora

• That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."
• Jordan's dad comes back for a month, all takeaways and football, then is gone again.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «takeaway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.