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Uptake   Listen
noun
Uptake  n.  (Steam Boilers)
1.
The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
2.
Understanding; apprehension. (Scot.)





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"Uptake" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember, darling. If I'm a little slow on the uptake it's because I've had a lot of things happen to ...
— A World Apart • Samuel Kimball Merwin
... states which cannot be exprest on the stage and which can be exprest in the novel. In earlier ages, which could do with a narrow range of vivid sensations, the drama sufficed; it will not suffice for an age which wants an illimitable range of sensations, and, being quick in the uptake, can dispense with vividness." And then the brilliant critic of the London Times dwelt on the meagerness of Ibsen's 'Master-Builder' when contrasted with "the extraordinarily complicated texture of subtle thoughts and minute sensations" in Mr. James's ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews


Words linked to "Uptake" :   eating, drink, drinking, sucking, bodily function, consumption, imbibition, ingestion, intake, feeding, swallow, body process, re-uptake, reuptake, human process, bodily process, imbibing, activity, radioactive iodine uptake test, deglutition, suck, suction


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