Term: take-up: any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: blue grama: a pasture grass of western North America
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: goldbrick: anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: butanone: colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: oleaster: any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: pollack: lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: sour gourd: acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: goldeneye: a variety of green lacewing
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: beadsman: a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: configuration: an arrangement of parts or elements
Broader: object: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Unrelated: law of constant proportion: (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight