uptake : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: uptake	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for uptake
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uptake n the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) Synonym(s): consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"
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.