Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈʌpteɪk/
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/ʌpˈteɪk/
Noun
Understanding; comprehension.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
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- Uncountable
The act of lifting or taking up.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A chimney.
Usage- Countable
- Dated
- Uncountable
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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.
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Verb
To take up, to lift.
Usage- Archaic
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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.
Noun
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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a process of taking up or using up or consuming
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they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids