take

(とる) Take (pick up) in your hand (ball, key, card). Also means to get (good marks on a test, a prize, etc,) also, to take a picture!   $$$
 
(とる) To take a picture (only used in the context of 撮影 (さつえい, meaning professional-style photo shoots)
 
(とる) Gather (mushrooms, cherries, honey (if you are a bee)). Also, sometimes, it means to adopt a certain policy or take a certain measure.
 
(とる) To assume command of something, to take control of something, to spearhead some shit, and – randomly – to take up your pen and write some shit (which presumably the shit is a manifesto or expose or will start shit). ZZZ