take up

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take up

kääntyä, muuttua, kannattaa, omaksua, valita, liittyä jhk, tajuta, kiinnostua, alkaa ymmärtää, hoksata, juoda, syödä, nauttia, niellä, käyttää, olla, imeä, absorboitua, adsorboida, adsorboitua, imeytyä pintaan, sitoa pintaan, imeytyä, imeä sisäänsä.

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make-up, pick-up, cup, maailmancup, ketchup, gallup, puhelingallup, katugallup...

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Englannin sanakirja

take up englanniksi

1. puhekieltä 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.

2. acceptance Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).

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4. puhekieltä To pick up.

5. 1600, The Bible (Authorised Version), Mark 2:11:

I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

The reel automatically took up the slack.

6. 1865, (w), (w)

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking.

7. puhekieltä To begin doing (an activity) on a regular basis.

Ive taken up knitting.''

I wish to take up mathematics.

8. (quote-book)

9. (senseid) puhekieltä To addressVerb address (an issue).

Lets take this up with the manager.''

10. puhekieltä To occupy; to consume (space or time).

The books on finance take up three shelves.

All my time is taken up with looking after the kids.

11. puhekieltä To shorten by hemming.

If we take up the sleeves a bit, that shirt will look much better on you.

12. puhekieltä To remove the surface or roadbed bed of a road.

13. 1876, Supreme Court of Iowa, June Term 1876 court record, “The Davenport Central Railway Co. v. The Davenport Gas Light Co., Appeal from Scott Circuit Court”, published in The American Railway Reports, Volume 14:

It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that a temporary writ of injunction issue, enjoining said defendant and all persons acting under or for it, from in any manner taking up, disturbing or interfering with the road-bed and track of said plaintiff so as to prevent the passage of cars thereon

14. 1915, w:Lord Dunsany|Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, w:Fifty-One Tales|Fifty-One Tales:

They had pickaxes in their hands and wore corduroy trousers and that little leather band below the knee that goes by the astonishing name of “York-to-London.” They seemed to be working with peculiar vehemence, so that I stopped and asked one what they were doing. “We are taking up Picadilly,” he said to me.

15. puhekieltä To accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from.

Shall we take them up on their offer to help us move?

16. puhekieltä To resume.

lets take up where we left off''

17. To implement, to employ, to put into use.

18. 2008, BBC News, Iolo ap Dafydd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7361434.stm Wood homes solution' to shortage''

"So I'd imagine if they were to take up this system, or a similar system, we should be able to build quicker."

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