uptake
Noun
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Noun
uptake
- Understanding; comprehension.
- Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
- The act of lifting or taking up.
- (dated) A chimney.
- (dated) The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
- Italian: assorbimento
uptake (uptakes, present participle uptaking; past uptook, past participle uptaken)
- (archaic) To take up, to lift.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- He hearkned to his reason, and the childe / Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
- To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
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