Synonym: absorb, adopt, assume, borrow, draw, fasten on, hook on, imbibe, latch on, lift out, resume, scoop, scoop out, scoop up, seize on, soak up, sop up, sorb, start, strike, suck, suck in, suck up, take, take in, take over. Similar words: make up, makeup, wake up, shake up, make up for, make use of, take, stake. Meaning: v. 1. pursue or resume 2. adopt 3. turn one's interest to 4. take up time or space 5. begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job 6. take up and practice as one's own 7. occupy or take on 8. take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption 9. take out or up with or as if with a scoop 10. accept 11. take in, also metaphorically 12. take up as if with a sponge 13. return to a previous location or condition take-up. n. 1. a device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion 2. the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in.
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91. He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest, not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination.
92. Because each film will take up a tremendous amount of computer disk space, only one will be available at a time.
93. Then they take up their positions, the reader going to the lectern.
94. Children who disrupt lessons at school take up a disproportionate amount of the teacher's time.
95. A section at the end looks at relocation allowances offered to new recruits who have to move to take up an appointment.
96. I am a collector who lives in a flat, and boxed sets take up much more space than separate discs.
97. Brain functions become more diffuse in girls, whereas they take up specific locations in the heads of boys.
98. The second is the extent to which the offeror's shareholders will take up shares under the open offer.
99. But I am pretty clumsy so I had better not take up too many other sports.
100. The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide.
101. You shouldn't take up acting as a career; it's a very risky business.
102. Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.
103. Plenty of animals take up unlikely opportunities as they arise.
104. Cast off a calculation determining how much space copy will take up when typeset.
105. I made another mental note to quit smoking cigarettes and take up pipes.
106. Wind farms also take up huge tracts of land and can kill birds caught in turbine blades.
107. They then take up positions as if they were the people in the photograph.
108. That might boost the take up into the low six figures.
109. The electrons and muons in these molecules can take up several different configurations,(www.Sentencedict.com) each with their own characteristic energy.
110. Complex formatting will take up your time and delay the editorial process.
111. David will leave Emap and take up his new appointment at the end of July.
112. Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office.
113. This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party, as rival factions take up distinctive stances.
114. Matsch will take up other defense challenges to prosecution witnesses next week.
115. Clearance applications require planning as it may take up to 30 days to obtain clearance.
116. Preparing the evening meal can take up to three hours.
117. The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form.
118. Then the instrumentalists would take up the melancholy tune themselves and we would see the title card.
119. In addition, contributions can be made to take up any unused part of the total earnings of the past six years.
120. Before they went through to the staff room to take up positions when the parents arrived.
More similar words: make up, makeup, wake up, shake up, make up for, make use of, take, stake, take for, take off, take to, take on, take out, take down, take care, take away, take over, take time, take apart, take after, by mistake, take place, take the road, take turns, take care of, take note of, undertake, take it easy, take the lead, take effect.