uptake

Speech parts

1. uptake - Noun

2. uptake - Verb

Meaning

To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

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

Understanding; apprehension.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

consumption intake ingestion understanding absorption assimilation comprehension take-up use take taking sorb receive collection usage
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Antonyms

save sit refusal ignorance misconception depreciation
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Hypernyms

activity bodily function bodily process body process human process

Hyponyms

drinking drink eating feeding suction swallow

Phrases with the word

on the uptake nitrogen uptake nutrient uptake slow on uptake

Anagrams

Paektu takeup

Examples

Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake. Constant Lambert

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal. Ethan Zuckerman

[He's] the smartest on the uptake that I have encountered. Sonny Bill Williams

After a certain point, most networks become either congested or saturated, stopping future uptake. Source: Internet

Amiloride has additional benefit of blocking Li uptake. Source: Internet

A radioactive iodine uptake test and thyroid scan together characterizes or enables radiologists and doctors to determine the cause of hyperthyroidism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

upsy-daisy upsy-down Uptain uptaker uptaking uptalk