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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uptake
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quick on the uptake (=able to understand quickly what someone is saying)
▪ He’s a good interviewer, tough and quick on the uptake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
quick
▪ I thought it would be evident; you are generally very quick on the uptake.
slow
▪ Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.
▪ In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake.
▪ Could anyone really be that slow on the uptake? wondered Pascoe.
▪ And so, finally, to Anthony O'Hear, intellectual and all-round clever fellow, albeit a bit slow on the uptake.
▪ A bit slow on the uptake, you might think, Haringey's finance department.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slow on the uptake
▪ A bit slow on the uptake, you might think, Haringey's finance department.
▪ And so, finally, to Anthony O'Hear, intellectual and all-round clever fellow, albeit a bit slow on the uptake.
▪ Could anyone really be that slow on the uptake? wondered Pascoe.
▪ In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake.
▪ Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The disease limits the uptake of water and nutrients into the tree.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds, aldehydes and fatty acids, which stimulated oxygen uptake.
▪ Disease activity must therefore be derived from the degree of abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans.
▪ Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.
▪ Table 2.1 compares National Certificate uptake over the past three sessions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uptake

Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t. To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.]
--Wyclif. Spenser.

Uptake

Uptake \Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers)

  1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

  2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.]
    --Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uptake

"capacity for understanding, perceptive power," 1816, from up (adv.) + take (v.). Compare Middle English verb uptake "to pick or take up" (c.1300). Meaning "pipe leading up from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney" is from 1839.

Wiktionary
uptake

n. 1 understanding, comprehension 2 absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism 3 (context dated English) a chimney vb. (context archaic English) To take up, to lift.

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WordNet
uptake

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

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

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Wikipedia
Uptake

Uptake may refer to:

  • Diffusion (business), the acceptance or adoption of a new product or idea.
  • Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism. (see digestion)
    • Mineral uptake, by plants
  • Neurotransmitter uptake carriers, a class of membrane transport proteins that pump neurotransmitters from the extracellular space into the cell.
Uptake (business)

Uptake is a predictive analytics SaaS platform provider based in Chicago, Illinois. Co-founded by Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, Uptake serves to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety.

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The beans, massive, mottled spheres a little larger than his fist, were stored in open boxes, protected by their hard rinds, but they, too, showed both an abundance of ascorbic acid and a complete absence of anything that might block its uptake.

Perez had always been fast on the uptake and managed to beat Dunlop to the verbal draw.

Henry Heth, quicker on the uptake, figured out why: "They haven't been biting cartridges all day, not with these new brass ones, so they've no need to look as though they were in a blackface minstrel show.

This child, with pitous lamentacioun, Uptaken was, syngynge his song alway, And with honour of greet processioun They carien hym unto the nexte abbay.

Carbon monoxide was a simple molecule, yet in the human circulatory system it could block the uptake of oxygen in red blood cells, leading quickly to death.

It also served the purposes of a lymphatic system, transporting uptake nanos from thousands of tiny lymph nodes distributed along her arteries.

So even though I could uptake the information at around ten megabaud, that doesn't do me any good, because my eye muscles can only move about a hundredth that fast.

Diseases like myasthenia gravis which involve profound muscle weakness are often related to disturbances in neurotransmitter release, uptake, or clearance.

And then one day they get four hlessil wished on them by the Council, and the next evening Bugloss isn't very quick in the uptake for some reason, and suddenly these hlessil play a trick on him and bunk.

The sulfur cycle's in trouble, and that impacts your nitrogen uptake in hydroponics.