uptake
pronunciation
How to pronounce uptake in British English:
UK [ˈʌpteɪk]
How to pronounce uptake in American English:
US [ˈʌpˌtek]
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- Noun:
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- a process of taking up or using up or consuming
Word Origin
- uptake (n.)
- "capacity for understanding, perceptive power," 1816, from up (adv.) + take (v.). Compare Middle English verb uptake "to pick or take up" (c. 1300). Meaning "pipe leading up from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney" is from 1839.
Example
- 1. They can invade the digestive tract and block nutritional uptake .
- 2. Higher salt concentrations alone may inhibit ion uptake .
- 3. Overeating generates excess fatty acids that inflame part of the hypothalamus , decreasing the uptake of these hormones .
- 4. Difference between phosphorus uptake and utilization in waxy corn .
- 5. Effects of two hedgerows species on nutrients uptake for crops .