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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151. Jackie's brother Jimmy, was the first to take up racing but he quit after an accident.
152. The tiny molecules of the salt fit into the spaces between the water molecules and do not take up extra space.
153. He's about to take up residence at Hertford College, Oxford.
154. Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company.
155. Charlies leaving the show to take up his new post at the Kings almost at once.
156. Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster.
157. It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos.
158. For example the efficiency of labour would appear to take up some considerable amount of their time.
159. Sadly, Brian Rowe's personal circumstances have now changed and he is not able to take up the post.
160. Take up every fourth or fifth board, so that you can reach between the joists and the undersides of boards.
161. An internal ramp of the maximum permitted gradient would take up too much floor space in the small shop.
162. Robert Fraser wanted to take up the invitation to visit my studio.
163. This program will take up a lot of your available disk space.
164. Although socialists are now beginning to take up these questions, a feminist perspective highlights these as central issues.
165. He decided to postpone his meditations and take up the subject again later.
166. If jobs are not created to take up the people who are coming off of welfare, social chaos is the result.
167. The more space they take up, the larger the object looks.
167. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
168. The full board will take up the matter Monday, and passage is expected.
169. They can take up to 30 people - we were normally a maximum of 12.
170. Others did take up Spemann's challenge, and truly began the age of nuclear transfer that he and Loeb had presaged.
171. Forty senators could block the bill because Senate rules require 60 votes to take up a conference committee report.
172. When people retire, they often take up new hobbies and start to make new friends.
173. In this chapter we will take up the first two topics, which constitute a major portion of semantics.
174. It makes the light rays take up more space on your retina.
175. Twenty percent of pensioners do not take up benefits that they are entitled to.
176. But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole.
177. He left the country in December to take up residence in Panama.
178. At Shell Chemicals 30 women take up 9.3 percent of the managerial positions.
179. As more women take up exercise, there is an urgent need to know about its effects on the outcome of pregnancy.
180. I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post.
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.