Meaning of UPTAKE
| Pronunciation: | | 'up`teyk
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- [n] the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- [n] a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with greater uptake of liquids"
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| | Synonyms: | | consumption, ingestion, intake |
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| | See Also: | | activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, deglutition, drink, drinking, eating, feeding, imbibing, imbibition, process, reuptake, re-uptake, suck, sucking, suction, swallow | |
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\Up*take"\, v. t.
To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
Spenser.
\Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers)
1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam
boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading
upward.
2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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