take up

== English == === Alternative forms === take one up === Pronunciation === === Noun === take up (countable and uncountable, plural take ups) Alternative form of take-up. === Verb === take up (third-person singular simple present takes up, present participle taking up, simple past took up, past participle taken up) (transitive) To lift; to raise. (transitive) To pick up. (transitive) To remove (a ground or floor surface, including the bed of a road or the track of a railway). 1876, Supreme Court of Iowa, June Term 1876 court record, “The Davenport Central Railway Co. v. The Davenport Gas Light Co., Appeal from Scott Circuit Court”, published in The American Railway Reports, Volume 14: It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that a temporary writ of injunction issue, enjoining said defendant and all persons acting under or for it, from in any manner taking up, disturbing or interfering with the road-bed and track of said plaintiff so as to prevent the passage of cars thereon (transitive) To absorb (a liquid), to soak up. (transitive, sewing) To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming. Synonym: take in (transitive) To tighten or wind in (a rope, slack, etc.) Synonym: take in (transitive) To occupy; to consume (space or time). (transitive) To take, to assume (one’s appointed or intended place). (transitive) To set about doing or dealing with (something). (transitive) To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis. (transitive) To begin functioning in (a role or position), to assume (an office). (transitive) To address or discuss (an issue). (transitive) To accept, to adopt (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.). Antonym: turn down (transitive, with 'on') To accept (a proposal, offer, request, cause, challenge, etc.) from. (transitive) To join in (saying something). (ambitransitive) To resume, to return to something that was interrupted. (transitive) To implement, to employ, to put into use. (transitive, Canada) To review the solutions to a test or other assessment with a class. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To begin occupying and working (a plot of uncultivated land), to break in. (transitive, chiefly British) To pay off, to clear (a debt, loan, mortgage, etc.). (transitive, archaic) To arrest (a person). Synonym: take in (transitive) To reprove or reproach (a person). (transitive) To begin to support or patronize, to sponsor (a person), to adopt as protégé. ==== Derived terms ==== take up for take up the running take up with ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === uptake