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take-away | take-home | take-home pay | take-in | take-off | take-up | takeaway | takedown | takelma | taken | taken for granted

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take-up

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun take-up has 2 senses

take-up(n = noun.artifact) Array - any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom); "a take-up that winds photographic film on a spool"

take-up(n = noun.act) Array - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in; Array

CIDE DICTIONARY

take-up, n.

That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch. [1913 Webster]

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