uptake
IPA: ˈʌpteɪk
noun
- Understanding; comprehension.
- Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
- The act of lifting or taking up.
- (dated) A chimney.
- (dated) The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
verb
- (archaic) To take up, to lift.
- To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
- To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
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Examples of "uptake" in Sentences
- Radioiodine scanning and uptake.
- Measurement of vital dye uptake.
- ADH increases the uptake of water.
- A little slow on the uptake on occasion.
- Initially the uptake of the format was low.
- He is quite aloof and a bit slow on the uptake.
- The uptakes in the stomach and bowel are normal physiologic findings.
- Gender, pregnancy and the uptake of antenatal care services in Pakistan.
- The uptake rate of the dye is controlled with the use of sodium chloride.
- The heart acts to pump blood through arteries and uptake the venous blood.