Definitions for uptakeˈʌpˌteɪk

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

up•takeˈʌpˌteɪk(n.)

  1. mental grasp:

    quick on the uptake.

  2. an act or instance of taking up.

  3. a pipe or passage leading upward from below, as for conducting smoke or a current of air.

    Category: Machinery

  4. the absorption of substances, as nutrients, by the tissues.

Origin of uptake:

1810–20

Princeton's WordNet

  1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake(noun)

    the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

  2. uptake(noun)

    a process of taking up or using up or consuming

    "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"

Wiktionary

  1. uptake(Noun)

    understanding, comprehension

  2. uptake(Noun)

    absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism

  3. uptake(Noun)

    a chimney

  4. uptake(Verb)

    To take up, to lift.

  5. Origin: From uptaken, equivalent to .

Webster Dictionary

  1. Uptake(verb)

    to take into the hand; to take up; to help

  2. Uptake(noun)

    the pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward

  3. Uptake(noun)

    understanding; apprehension


Translations for uptake

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

uptake(noun)

quick or slow to understand

She's inexperienced, but very quick on the uptake.

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