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take-up, n. (a.)|ˈteɪkʌp|
[The verbal phrase take up (see take v. 93) used as n. or adj.]
The act of taking up, or a contrivance for taking up.
1. The act of ‘taking up’ or drawing together the stuff so as to form ‘gathers’ in a dress; concr. one of such ‘gathers’.
1825Jamieson, Tak-up, Take-up, the name given to a tuck in female dress. 1880Plain Hints Needlework 19 The take-up of each gather should be..neatly done.
2. a. A device in a machine for tightening a band, rope, etc. b. A device in a sewing-machine for drawing the thread so as to tighten the stitch.
1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2483/2 The independent take-up is one which acts in its own time without being actuated by the needle-bar. 1888Sci. Amer. 3 Mar. 138/2 A sewing machine, and a take up and tension for sewing machines, form the subject of three patents.
3. a. In a loom or other machine, the process of winding up the stuff already woven or treated; concr. the part of the mechanism by which this is done. Also attrib. or adj., as in take-up motion.
1850Rep. Comm. Patents 1849 (U.S.) 186 Improvement in the delivery and take-up motion of Looms. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2483/2 The let-off is the paying off of the yarn from the beam, and proceeds coincidently with the take-up. 1884Ibid. Suppl., Take Up Motion.., a device for automatically winding the tissue on to the cloth beam.
b. Cinematogr. The apparatus for gathering up film after exposure in a projector or camera.
1915B. E. Jones Cinematograph Bk. 162 The take-up or driving mechanism of the bottom spool. 1931B. Brown Talking Pictures 181 This is threaded through the projector..and down to the take-up. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 832/2 Take up, take up reel (Cinema), the drive and the reel which is necessary to accept the cinematograph film after exposure in the gate of a camera or projector.
4. The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel of a marine engine boiler.
1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 225/1 If the pressure continues..the water rises through the take-up into the fire, and extinguishes it. 1888A. E. Seaton Marine Eng. (ed. 7) 365 The part between the smoke-box and funnel is called the ‘uptake’ or ‘take-up’.
5. Engin. The action or process of taking up (see take v. 93 f (b)).
1912[see clutch n.1 6 a]. 1927Daily Tel. 21 June 7 The clutch too is light in action and positive,..its ‘take-up’ is smooth and without jerk.
6. The acceptance of something offered; spec. the claiming of benefits provided by the Welfare State. Cf. take v. 93 d (a).
1961Economist 22 Apr. 347/3 Recent studies have suggested a similar social gradient in the use of certain infant welfare services and in the ‘take-up’ of welfare foods. 1971Times 23 Jan. 18/5 The same low take-up has been shown to apply to free prescriptions. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxv. 371 The take-up of longer courses in our sample was very low. 1981Daily Tel. 14 May 36/3 Mr Norman Buchan..put to his ‘favourite social services minister’..that not one welfare benefit had ‘a take-up’ of more than 80 per cent.
7. spec. in Finance, the action of paying in cash for stock originally bought on margin.
1976Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 11/9 The market also faced repayment of moderate Bank of England loans.., Treasury Bill take-up, maturing local authority bills in official hands. 1979irish Times 28 Sept. 15/4 The market had a small net take-up of Treasury Bills to finance.
8. attrib., as take-up lever, take-up reel, take-up spool, etc.
1884Take-up motion [see sense 3 a above]. 1904Dialect Notes II. 391 Take-up screw,..a kind of screw for iron pull-rods or wire rope. 1927T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk 123 Then the cloth goes over the emery take-up roller, and finally on to the cloth beam. 1931B. Brown Talking Pictures 133 Only one spool-carrying spindle is employed, which takes both feed and take-up spools side by side. 1940Take-up reel [see sense 3 b above]. 1943Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 85 Take-up reel, [on a fire-alarm] a clockwork driven reel, which maintains the tension and winds-up the tape released by the register. 1954Trans. IRE Audio II. 15/1 The tape is fed over another non-rotating tape guide combined with a compliance arm and fed to the take-up reel. 1961Which? Nov. 277 (caption) Take up lever. 1972Sci. Amer. Jan. 8/3 The new camera takes the film in a direct line back to the take-up magazine, thus providing an instrument that has only one turn for the film. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 12 The cassette is loaded into a compartment, and film threaded across the back of the camera into a take-up spool. 1978D. A. Stanwood Memory of Eva Ryker i. xx. 191 The last of the seven hours of tape flipped onto the take-up reel of the recorder. |