Associations to the word «Uptake»

Wiktionary

UPTAKE, noun. Understanding, comprehension
UPTAKE, noun. Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism
UPTAKE, noun. (dated) a chimney
UPTAKE, verb. (archaic) To take up, to lift.

Dictionary definition

UPTAKE, noun. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
UPTAKE, noun. A process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca