Definitions for uptake

uptake up·take

Spelling: [uhp-teyk]
IPA: /ˈʌpˌteɪk/

Uptake is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in uptake (aekptu).

Definitions for uptake

noun

  1. apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp:
  2. an act or instance of taking up; a lifting:
  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 of uptake

1810-20; up- + take; compare take-up

Examples for uptake

It is too early to tell, but we are hopeful to see if there is an uptake in sales given this recent exposure.

You are slower of the uptake, Anne, than is common with you.

But it shows that the Romney team is pretty quick on the uptake.

"I only said that the once," said Wully, shocked at her glibness in the uptake.

And in that look old Fanny, slow in the uptake though she undoubtedly was, read a tremendous piece of news.

Now at that time I own that I was not bright in the uptake about such things.

"Men are apt to be slow in the uptake," she added indulgently.

Quick though the French are at the uptake, it took the good Commandant just a little while to settle down to the odd position.

"I war jest a-studyin' erbout thet myself," affirmed Maggard whose quickness of uptake was more eager than truthful.

"Say 'at it is," cried Jess, who was quicker in the uptake than her daughter.

Word Value for uptake
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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