UPTAKE

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• take up, take-up, takeup

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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