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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating);
[syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake]

2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming;
- Example: "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t. To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Uptake \Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers) [1913 Webster] 1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward. [1913 Webster] 2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

uptake n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake] 2: a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"