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up⋅take

  [uhp-teyk]
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–noun
1. apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
2. an act or instance of taking up; a lifting: the uptake of fertilizer by machines.
3. Also called take-up. Machinery. a pipe or passage leading upward from below, as for conducting smoke or a current of air.
4. Physiology. absorption.
Origin:
1810–20; up- + take; cf. take-up
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uptake 
"capacity for understanding," 1816, from up + take. Cf. obs. verb uptake "to pick or take up," attested from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: up·take
Pronunciation: '&p-"tAk
Function: noun
: an act or instance of absorbing and incorporating something especially into a livingorganism uptake studies —Journal of the American Medical Association>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

uptake up·take (ŭp'tāk')
n.
The absorption by a tissue of a substance, such as a nutrient, and its permanent or temporary retention.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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