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Definitions: Take-up |
Take-upNoun1. A device for reducing slack or taking up lost motion. 2. The action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Mechanism which winds extruded cable on to drums as it comes from the extruder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: shortening (industry), shrinkage, take up (transportationfine arts, engineering & technologyindustry), take-up device (chemical industry, industry), tension shackle (mining), tightener, wind (fine arts, engineering & technology), wind up, wind-up (chemical industry, industry), wind-up device. |
Crosswords: Take-up |
| Specialty definitions using "take-up": block time ♦ casing runner, CASING-RUNNING-MACHINE TENDER, COATER OPERATOR, crammed pick ♦ dead pick ♦ FILM INSPECTOR ♦ magnetic tape cassette, MICA-LAMINATING-MACHINE FEEDER ♦ payoff reel, photograph printer, PRINTER OPERATOR, BLACK-AND-WHITE ♦ quality-control projectionist ♦ reel-film inspector, rewind, rewind mechanism ♦ shirring tender ♦ take-up device, TAKE-UP OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Take-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.33% of the time. "Take-up" is used about 150 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.33% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 150 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "take-up": non-take-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "take-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | udspoleapparat (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), opviklingsudstyr (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), opspolingsudstyr (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), opspoleapparat (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device). (various references) | |
Dutch | opwikkelmechanisme (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), oprolinrichting (belt tensioning idler pulley, belt tightener, carrier roller, drum, jockey pulley, take-up device, tension roller, top roller, track idler, track supporting roller), oprolapparaat (take-up device). (various references) | |
Finnish | vastaanottolaite (take-up device), vastaanottokela (take-up device), rullauskone (batch, machine for rolling, take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device). (various references) | |
French | tambour de tirage, enrouleuse (take-up device), dispositif d'enroulement (take-up device). (various references) | |
German | Aufwickel. (various references) | |
Greek | συσκευή συλλογής δια περιτυλίξεως (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), διάταξη συλλογής (take-up device). (various references) | |
Italian | volano di tirata (take-up device), rullo di avvolgimento (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), dispositivo di avvolgimento (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), avvolgitore (drum, take-up device, winder, wind-up, wind-up device). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ake-uptay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | unidade de toma (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device). (various references) | |
Russian | натяжное приспособление. (various references) | |
Spanish | dispositivo de enrollado (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), dispositivo de desmontaje (take-up device). (various references) | |
Swedish | upprullningsbock (take-up device, wind-up, wind-up device), avtagare (take-up device). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Take-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: takeup, toko-ru, toku-ru. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: takeup, uptake. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: kaput, taupe. | |
-2 letters: kept, pate, peak, peat, puke, take, tape, teak, tepa. | |
-3 letters: ape, apt, ate, auk, eat, eau, eta, kae, kat, kea, kep, kue, pat, pea, pet, put, tae, tap, tau, tea, tup, uke, uta. | |
-4 letters: ae, at, et, ka, pa, pe, ta, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: kajeput, takeups, uptakes. | |
+2 letters: kajeputs, outspeak, upmarket. | |
+3 letters: outspeaks. | |
+4 letters: bankrupted, outsparkle. | |
+5 letters: outsparkled, outsparkles, outspeaking, supermarket, supertanker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6B 65 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a k e - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006B 0065 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54677771158782 |
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