noun
Meaning 1
Understanding; comprehension.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
uptake
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Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: AH1 P T EY2 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The act of lifting or taking up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A chimney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
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Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
To take up, to lift.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
Meaning 7
To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
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verb
Meaning 8
To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
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noun
Meaning 9
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, intake
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
Narrower terms: eating, feeding, swallow, drink, deglutition, sucking, suck, suction, drinking, imbibing, imbibition
noun
Meaning 10
a process of taking up or using up or consuming
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: human process
Narrower terms: reuptake, re-uptake
History
Etymology
From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Hungarian: felvétel — absorption
- Hungarian: felszívódás — absorption
- Italian: assorbimento — absorption
- Romanian: absorbție — absorption
- Spanish: absorción — absorption
- Spanish: captación — absorption
- Spanish: absorbimiento — absorption
- Spanish: absorbencia — absorption
- Spanish: imbibición — absorption