take-up
Nouns
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(n) any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
- a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool
- (n) the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
Verbs
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(v) pursue or resume
- take up a matter for consideration
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(v) adopt
- take up new ideas
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(v) turn one's interest to
- He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
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(v) take up time or space
- take up the slack
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(v) begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- Take up a position
- start a new job
- (v) take up and practice as one's own adopt, borrow, take over,
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(v) occupy or take on
- He assumes the lotus position
- She took her seat on the stage
- We took our seats in the orchestra
- She took up her position behind the tree
- strike a pose
- (v) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption sorb,
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(v) take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- scoop the sugar out of the container
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(v) accept
- The cloth takes up the liquid
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(v) take in, also metaphorically
- The sponge absorbs water well
- She drew strength from the minister's words
- (v) take up as if with a sponge suck in, sop up, take in,
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(v) return to a previous location or condition
- The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it