| 单词 | take up |
| 释义 | take up (once / 93 pages) 1v 2v 3v WORD FAMILY take up: taken up, takes up, taking up, took up USAGE EXAMPLESTaking up the most time is her impossible mother, Yvette. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) “If it’s a very, very large party,” Gaché said, “a pile of hostess gifts could take up the entire foyer.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) Fresh corporate recruits were expected to take up the game. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1v turn one's interest to He took up herpetology at the age of fifty Hyper turn channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something 2v pursue or resume take up a matter for consideration Hyper embark, enter set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) 3v return to a previous location or condition Syn|Hyper resume change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 4v adopt take up new ideas Syn|Hyper fasten on, hook on, latch on, seize on adopt, embrace, espouse, sweep up take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own 5v take up and practice as one's own Syn|Hyper adopt, borrow, take over accept, have, take receive willingly something given or offered 6v begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job 2Take up a position Syn|Hypo start take office assume an office, duty, or title accede, entertake on duties or office adopt, assume, take on, take overtake on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 1v take up time or space take up the slack Hyper fill, occupy occupy the whole of 2v occupy or take on 3Syn|Hyper assume, strike, take fill, occupy, take assume, as of positions or roles move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 1v take out or up with or as if with a scoop Syn|Hypo|Hyper lift out, scoop, scoop out, scoop up dip scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 2v accept The cloth takes up the liquid Syn|Hypo|Hyper take in fuel take in fuel, as of a ship refueltake on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car have, receive get something; come into possession of 3v take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption Syn|Hypo|Hyper sorb absorb become imbued adsorbaccumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface chemisorbtake up a substance by chemisorption reabsorb, resorbundergo resorption assimilate, imbibetake (gas, light or heat) into a solution change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action 4v take up as if with a sponge Syn|Hyper sop up, suck in, take in consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 5v take in, also metaphorically Syn|Hypo absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in mop, mop up, wipe up to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop blotdry (ink) with blotting paper sponge upabsorb as if with a sponge swab, swobwash with a swab or a mop spongesoak up with a sponge |
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