uptake
English
noun
Definitions
- Understanding; comprehension.
- Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
- The act of lifting or taking up.
- (dated) A chimney.
- (dated) The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English uptaken (take up, lift), upnimen (take up, lift) pre from English take.
Origin
English
take
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betake English
- biouptake English
- caretake English
- entertake English
- foretake English
- fortake English
- intake English
- mistake English
- offtake English
- ontake English
- outtake English
- overtake English
- photouptake English
- radiouptake English
- retake English
- reuptake English
- stocktake English
- take English
- takeable English
- takeaway English
- takeover English
- taker English
- takest English
- undertake English
- uptaker English
- wapentake English
- withtake English
- wrongtake English
- teikata Finnish
- taken Middle English
- upnimen Middle English
- uptaken Middle English
- teki Sranan Tongo
- tek Jamaican Creole