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uptake |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t. To take into the hand; to take up to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Uptake \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: uptake n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: {consumption}, {ingestion}, {intake}] 2: a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with greater uptake of liquids"
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