v.
1.choose and follow
2.take up and practice as one's own
3.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
4.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
5.take into one's family
6.put into dramatic form
7.take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Idiom of the Day
out of one's mind/head/senses
to be silly or crazy, to be not using common sense
My friend was out of his mind to buy a new computer when he has no money.