'Uptake' definitions:
Definition of 'uptake'
(from WordNet)
noun
The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake]
noun
A process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"
Definition of 'Uptake'
From: GCIDE
- Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t. To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Uptake'
From: GCIDE
- Uptake \Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers) [1913 Webster]
- 1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]