En el contexto de bebidas: -tomar y beber significan lo mismo En otros contextos, tomar tiene otros significados: coger, agarrar

Both can be translated as "to drink", but "tomar" also means "to take" depending on the context. For example, a waitress might ask: What would you like to drink? = ¿Que desea beber? = ¿Qué desea tomar? The usage of one or the other is indifferent from a grammatical point of view. The speaker might prefer to use one over the other because that verb is more common where he lives. Personally, I seldom use "beber", I just use it when I want to sound more formal, cause "tomar" sounds more casual and part of the everyday vocabulary to me. But that might not be the case in other Spanish speaking countries, where "beber" is used all the time.

'Beber ' means to drink. ' Tomar' means to take .but they could be used interchangeably many times ,when you mean to say for example " I'll take a coffee or I 'll drink a coffee" Beber un café or Tomar un café

Yes like Sherry said, they both can have the same meaning, when it comes to "drink" Ex: I like to drink beer instead of tequila. I'm having a cup of coffee Me gusta beber cerveza en vez de tequila. Estoy tomando una taza de café. But when it comes to take as "picking up" something we only use "Tomar" between those words, although there are other synonyms for the meaning. take one and share the rest to the others. toma uno y reparte el resto a los otros.