TAKE UP — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
take up
Pursue or resume.
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- Take up a matter for consideration.
Return to a previous location or condition.
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- The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it.
Adopt.
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- Take up new ideas.
Take up as if with a sponge.
Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.
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- Scoop the sugar out of the container.
Take in, also metaphorically.
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- The sponge absorbs water well.
- She drew strength from the minister's words.
Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption.
Accept.
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- The cloth takes up the liquid.
Occupy or take on.
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- He assumes the lotus position.
- She took her seat on the stage.
- We took our seats in the orchestra.
- She took up her position behind the tree.
- Strike a pose.
Take up and practice as one's own.
Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job.
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- Take up a position.
- Start a new job.
Turn one's interest to.
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- He took up herpetology at the age of fifty.
Take up time or space.
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- Take up the slack.
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