Noun take up has 2 senses
- take-up - a device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion
--1 is a kind of device
- take-up - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
--2 is a kind of tightening
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Verb take up has 13 senses
- take up - pursue or resume; "take up a matter for consideration"
--1 is one way to embark, enter
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on - adopt; "take up new ideas"
--2 is one way to espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up
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Somebody ----s PP
=> Somebody ----s something
- take up - turn one's interest to; "He took up herpetology at the age of fifty"
--3 is one way to turn
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- take up - take up time or space; "take up the slack"
--4 is one way to occupy, fill
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Something ----s something
- start, take up - begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job"
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Somebody ----s something
- adopt, borrow, take over, take up - take up and practice as one's own
--6 is one way to accept, take, have
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- assume, take, strike, take up - 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"
--7 is one way to move
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Somebody ----s something
- sorb, take up - take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
--8 is one way to change state, turn
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Something ----s something
- scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up - take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"
--9 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- take in, take up - accept; "The cloth takes up the liquid"
--10 is one way to receive, have
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up - take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
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Something ----s something
- take in, sop up, suck in, take up - take up as if with a sponge
--12 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
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Somebody ----s something
- resume, take up - return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it"
--13 is one way to change
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Something ----s something
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