take up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
pursue or resume
take up a matter for consideration
Types & categories
- embark hypernym
Sense 2 verb
adopt
take up new ideas
Types & categories
- sweep up hypernym
Sense 3 verb
turn one's interest to
He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
Types & categories
- turn hypernym
Sense 4 verb
take up time or space
take up the slack
Types & categories
- fill hypernym
Sense 5 verb
begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
Take up a position
Types & categories
- take office hyponym
Related & opposite
- commencement derivation
- start derivation
- commencement derivation
Sense 6 verb
take up and practice as one's own
Types & categories
- accept hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 verb
occupy or take on
He assumes the lotus position
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- fill verb group
Sense 8 verb
take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Types & categories
- change state hypernym
- absorb hyponym
- adsorb hyponym
- chemisorb hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 9 verb
take out or up with or as if with a scoop
scoop the sugar out of the container
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- scoop derivation
- scoop shovel derivation
- scoop derivation
- scoop derivation
Sense 10 verb
accept
The cloth takes up the liquid
Types & categories
Sense 11 verb
take in, also metaphorically
The sponge absorbs water well
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 12 verb
take up as if with a sponge
Types & categories
- ingest hypernym
Sense 13 verb
return to a previous location or condition
The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | embark |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sweep up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | turn |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | fill |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | commencement |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | start |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | commencement |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | take office |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | borrowing |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | adopted |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | accept |
| 7 | verb group | Related & opposite | fill |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorption |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorbent |
| 8 | domain topic | Related & opposite | chemistry |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | change state |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | absorb |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | adsorb |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | chemisorb |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | scoop |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | scoop shovel |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | scoop |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | scoop |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | dip |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | receive |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | fuel |
| 11 | also see | Related & opposite | suck in |
| 11 | also see | Related & opposite | attract |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucking |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | sucker |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | juicer |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorption |
| 11 | derivation | Related & opposite | absorber |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | mop up |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | blot |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | sponge up |
| 12 | hypernym | Types & categories | ingest |
| 13 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |