About The Word Uptake
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Uptake
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What's The Definition Of Uptake?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Uptake: consumption | ingestion | intake Related Terms | Find terms related to Uptake: See Also | activity | bodily function | bodily process | body process | deglutition | drink | drinking | eating | feeding | imbibing | imbibition | process | reuptake | re-uptake | suck | sucking | suction | swallow Uptake In Webster's Dictionary \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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