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"a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool"nounany of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)type of:
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nounthe action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling intype of:
Definition that contains take up
- dare take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
- settle take up residence and become established
- borrow take up and practice as one's own
- assume take up someone's soul into heaven
- lick take up with the tongue
- lap take up with the tongue
- embrace take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- adopt take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- adopt take up and practice as one's own
- locate take up residence and become established