uptake

3 definitions found

uptake - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t.
     To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
     Spenser.
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  Uptake \Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers)
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     1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam
        boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading
        upward.
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     2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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uptake - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  uptake
      n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
           (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake,
           uptake]
      2: a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they
         developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"