uptake
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈʌpteɪk/ / /ʌpˈteɪk/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
- Understanding; comprehension.
- Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
- The act of lifting or taking up.
- A chimney.
“The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track.”
- The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
- To take up, to lift.
“He hearkned to his reason, and the childe Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].”
- To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
- To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.