In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
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
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
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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