uptake

IPA: ˈʌpteɪk

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.

Examples of "uptake" in Sentences

He has contributed strongly to the development of selective serotonin uptake blockers, a new generation of antidepressive drugs.
A common measure of aerobic efficiency is "VO2 max," or optimal oxygen uptake, which is determined using special equipment and a treadmill.
Amazon’s S3 service took this approach and their uptake is too slow, there’s no visible momentum (I know I’ll get lots of links for saying that).
In blue states, we have out of wedlock abortions instead of out of wedlock births (well, we try to teach birth control but the uptake is never 100%).
These data support the increased long-term uptake of NUEDEXTA, as we continue with our launch efforts and get increased accumulative exposure to doctors.
"I don't want to be a scaremonger," Goldacre writes, "but it's relatively easy to spot drops in uptake of vaccines that happen immediately after major scare stories, or, perhaps, a major TV drama.
And it made little difference that atom-splitting, radar, and television were British discoveries, since like jazz and cinema the main uptake of all the big ideas was on the American side of the Atlantic.