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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
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
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
Meaning: Occupy or take on Classified under: Verbs of walking, flying, swimming Synonyms: 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
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
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 "Don't judge a book by its cover." (English proverb) "It is easy to cut the tail of a dead wolf." (Albanian proverb) "Beware of he whose goodness you can't ask for for and whose evil you can't be protected from." (Arabic proverb) "Clothes make the man." (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Pronunciation of fill Meaning of take office Pronunciation of mop up Meaning of wipe up Pronunciation of take
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