Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t.
To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
Spenser.
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Uptake \Up"take`\, n. (Steam Boilers)
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1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam
boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading
upward.
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2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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uptake
n 1: 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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