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Webster 1913 Edition
Uptake
Up-take′
,Verb.
T.
To take into the hand; to take up; to help.
[Obs.]
Wyclif. Spenser.
Up′takeˊ
,Noun.
(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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Uptake
UPTA'KE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
uptake
uptake
English
Noun
uptake (countable and uncountable, plural uptakes)
- understanding, comprehension
- absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism
- (dated) a chimney
Translations
absorption
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Derived terms
- quick or slow on the uptake
Verb
uptake (third-person singular simple present uptakes, present participle uptaking, simple past uptook, past participle uptaken)
- (archaic) To take up, to lift.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- He hearkned to his reason, and the childe / Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii: