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What (who) is uptake - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Uptake (disambiguation)
uptake
n.
comprehension
(colloq.) (quick) on the uptake
Uptake
·noun Understanding; apprehension.
II. Uptake ·vt To take into the hand; to take up; to Help.
III. Uptake ·noun The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
uptake
1.
A person's uptake of something is the amount of it that they use. (TECHNICAL)
The drug increases the number of red cells in the blood, enhancing oxygen uptake by 10 percent.
...research in relation to the uptake of nitrate into vegetables.
N-SING: usu with supp
2.
You say that someone is quick on the uptake when they understand things quickly. You say that someone is slow on the uptake when they have difficulty understanding simple or obvious things.
She is not an intellectual, but is quick on the uptake...
Carol was absent-minded and a little slow on the uptake.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
Wikipedia
Uptake
Uptake may refer to:
- Uptake (business), a predictive analytics company based in Chicago, Illinois
- The UpTake, a Minnesota-based citizen journalist organization
- Diffusion (business), the acceptance or adoption of a new product or idea
- Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism. (see digestion)
- Mineral uptake, by plants
- Neurotransmitter uptake carriers, a class of membrane transport proteins that pump neurotransmitters from the extracellular space into the cell
Examples of use of uptake
1. "The current situation shows we need to learn that previous years‘ uptake figures are not a good enough measure of what uptake will be in future years.
2. "Experimental studies have shown a significant uptake of THMs when showering, bathing or swimming in pools.
3. Capital expenditure increased primarily as a result of significant customer uptake in the international mobile operations.
4. The chancellor was also slow on the uptake with his applause for Blair‘s tub–thumping rhetoric.
5. In fact, the government already has policies in place to increase CFL uptake.