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Uptake

Uptake Meaning & Definition
Uptake Definition And Meaning

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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