consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
uptake
(noun) a process of taking up or using up or consuming; “they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uptake (countable and uncountable, plural uptakes)
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.
uptake (third-person singular simple present uptakes, present participle uptaking, simple past uptook, past participle uptaken)
(archaic) To take up, to lift.
To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
• take up, take-up, takeup
Source: Wiktionary
Up*take", v. t.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
