[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

uptake \uptake"\, v. t.
   to take into the hand; to take up; to help. obs. --wyclif.
   spenser.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

uptake \up"take`\, n. steam boilers
   1913 webster
   1. the pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam
      boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading
      upward.
      1913 webster

   2. understanding; apprehension. scot. --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

uptake
     n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
          as by eating syn: consumption, ingestion, intake
     2: a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they
        developed paper napkins with greater uptake of liquids"
see also:
consumption ingestion intake 

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