uptake

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Understanding; comprehension.
2. (countable, uncountable) Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of lifting or taking up.
4. (countable, dated, uncountable) A chimney.
5. (countable, dated, uncountable) The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.

Verb

1. (archaic) To take up, to lift.
2. To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
3. To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

Synonyms

intake

consumption

ingestion

taking

drawing off

pipe

shot

take

understanding

bank withdrawal

absorption

uptake flue

appropriation

assumption

chimney

Translations

uyanık

absorción

ingestion

kavrayışlı

yükseltme

kaldırma

assimilation

entendement

اِزْدِراد

Auffassungsvermögen

تناوُل

Aufnahme

Begriffsvermögen

Einsicht

امتزاز

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʌpteɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: uptaken

Cognate with Swedish: upptaga

In summary

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”).