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up·take

(ŭp′tāk′)

1. A passage for drawing up smoke or air.

2. Understanding; comprehension: very quick on the uptake.

3. An act of taking in or absorbing, especially into a living organism.

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uptake

(ˈʌpˌteɪk)

1. (Building) a pipe, shaft, etc, that is used to convey smoke or gases, esp one that connects a furnace to a chimney

2. (Mining & Quarrying) mining another term for upcast²

3. taking up or lifting up

4. the act of accepting or taking up something on offer or available

5. quick on the uptake informal quick to understand or learn

6. slow on the uptake informal slow to understand or learn

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up•take

(ˈʌpˌteɪk)

n.

1. mental grasp: quick on the uptake.

2. an act or instance of taking up.

3. a pipe or passage leading upward from below, as for conducting smoke or a current of air.

4. the absorption of substances, as nutrients, by the tissues.

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Noun	1.	uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) consumption, ingestion, intake eating, feeding - the act of consuming food deglutition, swallow, drink - the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" suck, sucking, suction - the act of sucking drinking, imbibing, imbibition - the act of consuming liquids bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity - an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity"
	2.	uptake - a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids" human process - a process in which human beings are involved reuptake, re-uptake - a process of using up or consuming again; "psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters"

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uptake

[ˈʌpteɪk] N

1. (= understanding) to be quick on the uptake → ser muy listo, agarrar las cosas al vuelo
to be slow on the uptake → ser corto (de entendederas)

2. (= intake) → consumo m

3. (= acceptance) → aceptación f; (= number accepted) → cantidad f admitida

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uptake

(ˈapteik) : quick, slow on the uptake

quick or slow to understand. She's inexperienced, but very quick on the uptake. que las pilla al vuelo, que es muy listo

up·take

n. absorción, fijación o incorporación de alguna sustancia a un organismo vivo;

___ and storage → toma y almacenamiento.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

uptake

n captación f

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But though there were never circumstances to which boys could not adapt themselves in half an hour, older folk are slower in the uptake, and I am sure they stood and gaped at the changes so suddenly being worked in our midst, and scarce knew their way home now in the dark.

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He's always a heap more interested in his wages than in his work, just like a man, and he's so slow in the uptake that he stands still for five minutes before it dawns on him that he's stopped.

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"And in the South Seas garnered a better vocabulary from the lexicon of Love," Percival was quick on the uptake.

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Radioiodine contaminations and expected physiologic I-131 uptakes like in the breasts or thymus were excluded from the study.

Unexpected False-positive I-131 Uptake in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma/Diferansiye Tiroid Karsinomlu Hastalarda Beklenmeyen Yanlis Pozitif I-131 Tutulumu

The objectives of this study were to manufacture [beta]-lg nanoparticles with various sizes and surface charges by changing heating temperature, to determine the relationships between the particle size and surface charge of [beta]-lg nanoparticles and their cellular uptakes in Caco-2 cells, and to evaluate the cytotoxicity of [beta]-lg nanoparticles.

Cellular uptake and cytotoxicity of [beta]-lactoglobulin nanoparticles: the effects of particle size and surface charge

Similarly, potassium, calcium and total cation uptakes by plant were calculated.

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GRAIN YIELD AND BIOCHEMICAL TRAITS OF DIFFERENT RICE VARIETIES GROWN UNDER SALINE AND NORMAL CONDITIONS

However, P uptakes at all K fertilizer rates were statistically not different.

Effects of N, P and K Fertilizers on Yield, Content and Uptake of N, P and K by Sesame (Sesamum indicum)

This places the borough among the highest for school dinner uptakes in the North East, which has seen the largest increase in the country.

They're on to a winner with their dinners

Eliminating radioiodine uptakes from the routine evaluation of patients with hyperthyroidism doesn't affect diagnostic accuracy or the clinical outcome of radioiodine therapy, according to Dr.

Hyperthyroidism Diagnosis Without Radioiodine Uptakes

for each population, we then combined the route-specific uptakes to an estimate of total DDT uptake and, using a pharmaco-kinetic (PK) model, converted this total uptake into DDT concentrations in the human body.

Assessment of nonoccupational exposure to DDT in the tropics and the North: relevance of uptake via Inhalation from indoor residual spraying

Uptakes. Once values for the input parameters had been specified the simulations were run for the 300,000 women using S-PLUS (Mathsoft Inc., Cambridge, MA) We calculated an individual's average daily uptake of chloroform for swimming, showering, and bathing as follows:

The relationship between water concentrations and individual uptake of chloroform: a simulation study. (Research)

Table 1 gives descriptive statistics for the 8- and 24-hr raw uptakes (expressed as a percentage of ingested [sup.123]I) and the 8- and 24-hr relative uptakes (expressed as a percentage of the baseline uptake).

Health effects assessment for environmental perchlorate contamination: the dose response for inhibition of thyroidal radioiodine uptake in humans. (Articles)