What does uptake mean?

Definitions for uptake
ˈʌpˌteɪkup·take

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

    the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

  2. uptakenoun

    a process of taking up or using up or consuming

    "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"

Wiktionary

  1. uptakenoun

    understanding, comprehension

  2. uptakenoun

    absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism

  3. uptakenoun

    a chimney

  4. uptakeverb

    To take up, to lift.

  5. Etymology: From uptaken, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Uptakeverb

    To take into the hands.

    Etymology: up and take.

    He hearkned to his reason, and the child
    Uptaking, to the palmer gave to bear. Fairy Queen.

ChatGPT

  1. uptake

    Uptake refers to the process of taking in or absorbing something such as nutrients, information, or substances into a cell, tissue, or organism. It can also refer to the acceptance or willingness to understand or adopt a new idea, belief, or product.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Uptakeverb

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

  2. Uptakenoun

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

  3. Uptakenoun

    understanding; apprehension

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Uptake

    up′tāk, n. the act of lifting up: (prov.) mental apprehension: the upcast pipe from the smoke-box of a steam-boiler towards the chimney.—v.t. Uptake′, to take up.

CrunchBase

  1. Uptake

    Uptake is a social travel site helps you decide what to do on your ideal vacation by giving you advice and recommendations from the largest online travel library and the people you trust most. Uptake enables consumers to tap into their preferred source of expertise and recommendations " friends and trusted experts who have been there "to create the perfect trip. Uptake has also built a foundation of the largest structured travel library in the U.S., which offers a wealth of relevant consumer reviews, editorial articles and photos from more than 30,000 sites to help consumers make the best travel decisions. Launched in 2008, Uptake has built the third largest travel research audience in the U.S., behind TripAdvisor and Yahoo!.

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Anagrams for uptake »

  1. take up

  2. take-up

  3. takeup

  4. ketupa

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of uptake in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of uptake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of uptake in a Sentence

  1. Richard Chazal:

    We're extraordinarily fortunate to have these wonderful new tools that science shows us can potentially improve outcomes, how to use them is something we are still working through but I think we will see increased uptake in the next 12 months.

  2. Arif Kamal:

    There's just so many components to this where, for one population it's about lack of HPV vaccination uptake, and for another population, it's really about chemotherapy resistance, lack of access to specialist care and probably a changed biology, what you have here, in one cancer, is all the different types of disparities one could think of, kind of enmeshed into one space.

  3. United States:

    Even prior to Covid, screening uptake was not where it needed to be for the United States public.

  4. Brian Yarbrough:

    A lot of people have been asking McDonald's if they are going to do this. I do think to offer the consumer another option is nice, but again, it remains to be seen on what the uptake is.

  5. Evan Anderson:

    I think there is certainly a lot of hope that we will see a bit of uptake among our children 5 to 11 years of age if and when a vaccine becomes available, but I do think that, similar to what we're seeing in adolescents and adults, there will be some hesitancy that will be a major issue to potentially how impactful such a vaccine approval might be.

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