Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of taking or tightening up.
- noun A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion, as one in a loom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech.: Any device by which a flexible band, belt, rope, or tie may be tightened or shortened.
- noun In many machines, any one of a variety of devices by which, when a part of the material is fed forward to be acted upon, that which has already been treated is wound upon a roller or otherwise “taken up.”
- noun In a sewing-machine, a device for drawing up the slack of the thread as the needle rises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of taking something up, by
tightening ,absorption , orreeling in - noun machinery That which takes up or
tightens ; specifically, a device in asewing machine orloom for drawing up theslack thread as theneedle rises, in completing astitch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb return to a previous location or condition
- verb occupy or take on
- verb take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- verb accept
- verb pursue or resume
- verb take up and practice as one's own
- verb take in, also metaphorically
- verb take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- verb take up as if with a sponge
- verb adopt
- verb turn one's interest to
- verb begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- verb take up time or space
- noun any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
- noun the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
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Examples
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Mr Hayward said that surpluses from Welsh domain name take-up would be reinvested into projects in Wales.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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But when assessed per head, it comes only sixth in the UK.Sheffield has benefitted from a strong push by the local council to encourage the take-up of renewable power, and in particular by plans to give people living in social housing access to the technology, said Colin McNaught, knowledge leader on renewable energy for AEA Group, which carried out the research on which the league table is based.
Sheffield solar power sees city top table for renewable energy installation 2011
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It is only after paternal father's leave is integrated and incentivized in these parental leave policies that we see take-up for men increase.
Mary Curlew: Work and Family, Culture and Policy: What Works Mary Curlew 2011
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It is only after paternal father's leave is integrated and incentivized in these parental leave policies that we see take-up for men increase.
Mary Curlew: Work and Family, Culture and Policy: What Works Mary Curlew 2011
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What it will propose, it appears, is a £10bn loan underwriting programme for which it will charge a hefty insurance premium: however, the take-up, like its other schemes, will be trivial.
For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton 2011
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Numerous US government studies suggested that lack of consumer confidence was a major brake on the take-up of e-commerce in the US: people were afraid that their credit card details or other personal information were not safe online.
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But the take-up rate for flood cover and business interruption by Thai companies is relatively low compared with more developed markets, Marsh's Mr. Buchanan said.
Insurance Claims From Thai Floods to Run in Billions Phisanu Phromchanya 2011
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In a 2009 survey for trade journal Human Resources, YouGov found that expensive health screening was asked for by 40% of workers, yet take-up averaged just 8%.
Feeling the benefit 2011
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She implied that it was generally felt that – without the lab drills – there would have been a slim chance of take-up by the profession: it was a way of sugaring the notional-functional pill, perhaps.
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Triggering collective action by all banks and bringing forward investment by many SMEs will improve the economic climate, so the Treasury need not charge an insurance premium for its guarantee because the loan loss rate should be small – and high take-up at this stage in the cycle is highly desirable.
For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton 2011
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