Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of taking or tightening up.
- n. A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion, as one in a loom.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mech.: Any device by which a flexible band, belt, rope, or tie may be tightened or shortened.
- n. 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.” Also called
take-up motion . Such devices are used in looms, and in many other machines for the manufacture and treatment of textile fabrics, paper-hangings, oilcloth-printing, etc. Worm-gearing or ratchet-motions are features of most of them. - n. In a sewing-machine, a device for drawing up the slack of the thread as the needle rises.
Wiktionary
- n. the act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in
- n. machinery That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- v. return to a previous location or condition
- v. occupy or take on
- v. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- v. accept.
- v. pursue or resume
- v. take up and practice as one's own
- v. take in, also metaphorically
- v. take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- v. take up as if with a sponge
- v. adopt.
- v. turn one's interest to
- v. begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- v. take up time or space
- n. any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
- n. the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
Examples
“Mr Hayward said that surpluses from Welsh domain name take-up would be reinvested into projects in Wales.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Insurance Claims From Thai Floods to Run in Billions
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Guardian: Sheffield solar power sees city top table for renewable energy installation
“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%.”
“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.”
The Guardian: For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton
“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.”
The Guardian: For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Mary Curlew: Work and Family, Culture and Policy: What Works
“Despite SoftBank, WillCom and E-Mobile offering free voice calls to other customers of the same company (given certain conditions and/or payments), and au and docomo offering free calls amongst families, this recent survey reported on by japan. internet.com and conducted by Point On Research into mobile phone voice calls shows not too much take-up of such offers.”
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