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1. uptake

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Usually means: Absorption or acceptance of something.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word uptake:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptake: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uptake: Merriam-Webster
  3. uptake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uptake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. uptake: Collins English Dictionary
  6. uptake: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uptake, uptake: Wordnik
  8. uptake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. uptake: Wiktionary
  10. uptake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. uptake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. uptake: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. uptake: Dictionary.com
  14. uptake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. The UpTake, Uptake (business), Uptake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Uptake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. uptake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. uptake: Rhymezone
  19. Uptake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. uptake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. uptake: FreeDictionary.org
  22. uptake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. uptake: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uptake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptake: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. uptake: Medical dictionary

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  1. uptake: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Understanding; comprehension.
▸ noun:  Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
▸ noun:  The act of lifting or taking up.
▸ noun:  (dated) A chimney.
▸ noun:  (dated) The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To take up, to lift.
▸ verb:  To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
▸ verb:  To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

Similar:
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptaking, comprehension, understanding, intaking, ontake, sumption, susception, more...

Opposite:
decline, decrease, drop, reduction, fall

Types:
endocytosis, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, more...

Phrases:
active uptake, re uptake, Radioactive iodine uptake test, slow on the uptake, quick on the uptake, more...

Adjectives:
cellular, maximal, hepatic, higher, net, total, rapid, active, mediated, low, maximum

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Similar:
consumption, ingestion, intake, uptaking, comprehension, understanding, intaking, ontake, sumption, susception, more...

Opposite:
decline, decrease, drop, reduction, fall

Types:
endocytosis, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, more...

Phrases:
active uptake, re uptake, Radioactive iodine uptake test, slow on the uptake, quick on the uptake, be quick/slow on the uptake, be quick slow on the uptake, neurotransmitter uptake inhibitors, more...

Adjectives:
cellular, maximal, hepatic, higher, net, total, rapid, active, mediated, low, maximum

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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