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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UPTA'KE, v.t. [up and take.] To take into the hand. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Scots uptake to understand Date: 1816 1. understanding, comprehension <quick on the uptake> 2. a flue leading upward 3. an act or instance of absorbing and incorporating especially into a living organism, tissue, or cell <oxygen uptake>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 colloq. understanding; comprehension (esp. quick or slow on the uptake). 2 the act or an instance of taking up.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Uptake Up*take", v. t. To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A person's uptake of something is the amount of it that they use. (TECHNICAL) The drug increases the number of red cells in the blood, enhancing oxygen uptake by 10 percent. ...research in relation to the uptake of nitrate into vegetables. N-SING: usu with supp 2. You say that someone is quick on the uptake when they understand things quickly. You say that someone is slow on the uptake when they have difficulty understanding simple or obvious things. She is not an intellectual, but is quick on the uptake... Carol was absent-minded and a little slow on the uptake. PHRASE: v-link PHR