TAKE-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take-up mean? 

• TAKE-UP (noun)
  The noun TAKE-UP has 2 senses:

1. any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)

2. the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in

  Familiarity information: TAKE-UP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool

Hypernyms ("take-up" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("take-up" is a kind of...):

tightening (the act of making something tighter)