Usually means: Absorption or acceptance of something.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word uptake:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. uptake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. uptake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uptake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uptake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uptake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Uptake, uptake: Wordnik
  7. uptake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. uptake: Wiktionary
  9. uptake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. uptake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. uptake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. uptake: Dictionary.com
  13. uptake: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. The UpTake, Uptake (business), Uptake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Uptake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. uptake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. uptake: Rhymezone
  18. Uptake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. uptake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. uptake: Free Dictionary
  21. uptake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. uptake: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uptake: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. uptake: Idioms

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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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