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TAKEUP

"TAKEUP" is a common misspelling or typo for: makeup, take up, take-up.


Specialty Definition: TAKEUP

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. In a belt-conveyor system, a tensioning device such as a carriage-mounted weight free to run downslope or a takeup pulley with weights hanging vertically below the belt near the feed end b. Any device for taking up slack or removing the looseness of parts due to wear or other cause. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TAKEUP

Specialty definitions using "TAKEUP": horizontal takeupmanual takeupvertical takeup. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TAKEUP

"TAKEUP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAKEUP" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TAKEUP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

takeup reel

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TAKEUP

Language Translations for "TAKEUP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

bobinagem (reeling, winding), bobinador (winder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TAKEUP

Derivations

Words beginning with "TAKEUP": takeups. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TAKEUP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: 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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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