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  "id": "take.acquisition",
  "term": "take",
  "sense": "acquisition",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "take",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to get something by moving it from its place into your own",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "get.acquisition",
      "motion.movement",
      "put.placement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the motion of an object from its current place into the actor’s own place results in acquisition",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ownership transfer",
      "intentional acquisition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Curiosity rover collected a 500 mg soil sample from Gale Crater and transferred it to its onboard lab for analysis.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Library of Congress acquired the 1,450-title collection of jazz recordings from the estate of George Avakian.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron takes up dopamine from the synaptic cleft within 100 milliseconds of its release.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "get.acquisition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "based.foundation",
    "drug.chemical",
    "edit.process",
    "liquid.state",
    "offers.proposal",
    "port.harbor",
    "regret.emotional",
    "sample.material",
    "select.choice",
    "window-exit-versus-removed-part.distinction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "take",
    "taken",
    "takes",
    "taking",
    "took"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take.acquisition"
}