uptake

plural uptakes

1. countableuncountableUnderstanding; comprehension.
2. countableuncountableAbsorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
3. countableuncountableThe act of lifting or taking up.
4. countabledateduncountableA chimney.

   The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track.

   1951 January, “Notes and News: New Roof for Cricklewood M.P.D.”, in Railway Magazine, page 67

5. countabledateduncountableThe upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.

present singular third person uptakes · participle present uptaking · past uptook · participle past uptaken

1. archaicTo take up, to lift.

   He hearkned to his reason, and the childe Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
3. To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.