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take-up
[ teyk-uhp ]
noun
- the act of taking up.
- Machinery.
- any of various devices for taking up slack, winding in, or compensating for the looseness of parts due to wear.
- the contraction of fabric resulting from the wet operations in the finishing process, especially fulling.
take up
verb
- to adopt the study, practice, or activity of
to take up gardening
- to occupy and break in (uncultivated land)
he took up some hundreds of acres in the back country
- to shorten (a garment or part of a garment)
she took all her skirts up three inches
- to pay off (a note, mortgage, etc)
- to agree to or accept (an invitation, etc)
- to pursue further or resume (something)
he took up French where he left off
- to absorb (a liquid)
- to adopt as a prot茅g茅; act as a patron to
- to occupy or fill (space or time)
- to interrupt, esp in order to contradict or criticize
- take up on
- to argue or dispute with (someone)
can I take you up on two points in your talk?
- to accept what is offered by (someone)
let me take you up on your invitation
- take up with
- to discuss with (someone); refer to
to take up a fault with the manufacturers
- intr to begin to keep company or associate with
noun
- the claiming or acceptance of something, esp a state benefit, that is due or available
- ( as modifier )
take-up rate
- machinery the distance through which a part must move to absorb the free play in a system
- modifier denoting the part of a mechanism on which film, tape, or wire is wound up
a take-up spool on a tape recorder
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of take-up1
Example Sentences
Earlier, the government announced it would relax targets for electric and hybrid cars and provide 拢2.3bn to boost electric car take-up and improve charging infrastructure as a "down payment" on Britain's industrial future.
Now it provides power for around 15,000 people in the local area but the project hasn't been able to make ends meet because of slow take-up from the community.
This week, though, it opened hearings into the vaccine rollout across the UK, from take-up of the jabs, to their safety, to the way they were marketed to the public.
Areas hit by the fires rank as some of the places with highest take-up, according to data from the programme, which was already warning of risks to its financial stability.
The government says it has been working to boost take-up and eligible claims can be backdated.
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