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take_up
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[ verb ] pursue or resume
Examples "take up a matter for consideration" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The ingredients of Faulkner 's novels and stories are by_no_means new with him , and most_of the problems he takes_up have had the attention of authors before him . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)When Harold_Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944 , it was to take_up again a collaboration with Johnny_Mercer , begun some years before . The Mercers took_up residence in Brooklyn , and Mercer found a regular job in Wall_Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds '' . (Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)The issue of interaction between anxiety and compulsivity will be taken_up later . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)Madden took_up this point with Garth , who shrugged it off . Related terms |
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[ verb ] adopt, as of ideas
Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)To say this , of_course , is to take_up a position on one side of a controversy going_on now for some two hundred years , or , at_any_rate , since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)`` So_that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur , and become lifted_up , as if he had no lord , because of the dominion that had been given to him , and the freedom , fall into sin against God his Creator , overstepping his bounds , and take_up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God , a law was given him by God , that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)The pain in itself was neutral ; but unfortunately the rabbit , on no grounds at_all , took_up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for_the_first_time , and in the only intelligible sense , bad . For before someone takes_up an attitude toward death , suffering , or their infliction , they have no moral quality at_all . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)This conception was taken_up by the early Church_Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle_Ages ; and More was far too well_read not to have come_across it in one or several of the forms thus given it . Related terms |
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[ verb ] turn one's interest to
Synonyms Examples "He took up herpetology at the age of fifty" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Whole platoons were taking_up new positions on the steps , arriving and departing , while I stayed glued , like a signpost , to one spot . |
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[ verb ] take up time or space
Examples "take up the slack" Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Another force flanked the company and took_up a position on a hill to the rear . Related terms |
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[ verb ] begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
Synonyms Examples "Take up a position" "start a new job" Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)Cousin_Joshua and some others felt that we should march toward Lexington and take_up new positions ahead of the slow-moving British column , but another group maintained that we should stick to this spot and this section of road . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (chemistry) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption; in chemistry
Synonyms Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In most cases , these soils are taken_up as liquids through capillary_action . Related terms |
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[ verb ] take in, also metaphorically
Examples "The sponge absorbs water well" "She drew strength from the minister's words" |
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