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uptake Definition


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uptake
noun
    1. A pipe or flue with upward current.
    2. An act of lifting up.
    3. The act of taking up or accepting something on offer, or the extent of this.
Idiom: quick on the uptake (slow on the uptake)
    colloq
    Quick or slow to understand or realize something.
Etymology: 19c.



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