Dictionary entry details
• TAKE UP (verb)
Meaning:
Pursue or resume
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
take up a matter for consideration
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
embark; enter (set out on (an enterprise or subject of study))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Adopt
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
fasten on; hook on; seize on; take up; latch on
Context example:
take up new ideas
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Turn one's interest to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
turn (channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Meaning:
Take up time or space
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
take up the slack
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
fill; occupy (occupy the whole of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
take up; start
Context examples:
Take up a position / start a new job
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take up"):
take office (assume an office, duty, or title)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Take up and practice as one's own
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
adopt; borrow; take up; take over
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
accept; have; take (receive willingly something given or offered)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Meaning:
Occupy or take on
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
assume; take up; strike; take
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
sorb; take up
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take up"):
absorb (become imbued)
adsorb (accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface)
chemisorb (take up a substance by chemisorption)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Take out or up with or as if with a scoop
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
lift out; scoop; scoop up; scoop out; take up
Context example:
scoop the sugar out of the container
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take up"):
dip (scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Accept
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
take up; take in
Context example:
The cloth takes up the liquid
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
have; receive (get something; come into possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take up"):
fuel (take in fuel, as of a ship)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Take in, also metaphorically
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
suck up; sop up; soak up; imbibe; suck; absorb; take up; take in; draw
Context examples:
The sponge absorbs water well / She drew strength from the minister's words
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take up"):
mop; mop up; wipe up (to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop)
blot (dry (ink) with blotting paper)
sponge up (absorb as if with a sponge)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Take up as if with a sponge
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
suck in; sop up; take up; take in
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Return to a previous location or condition
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
resume; take up
Context example:
The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
Hypernyms (to "take up" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
