UPTAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uptake mean? 

• UPTAKE (noun)
  The noun UPTAKE has 2 senses:

1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming

  Familiarity information: UPTAKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPTAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake

Hypernyms ("uptake" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uptake"):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

deglutition; drink; swallow (the act of swallowing)

suck; sucking; suction (the act of sucking)

drinking; imbibing; imbibition (the act of consuming liquids)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A process of taking up or using up or consuming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids

Hypernyms ("uptake" is a kind of...):

human process (a process in which human beings are involved)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uptake"):

re-uptake; reuptake (a process of using up or consuming again)

 Context examples 

They found that the clays' rapid uptake of iron impaired bacterial metabolism.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

This species is acid fast, nonmotile, acid phosphatase and iron uptake negative and catalase, urease, pyrazinamidase and nicotinamidase positive.

(Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, NCI Thesaurus)

Namenda blocks the uptake of calcium by certain brain cells and decreases their activity.

(Namenda, NCI Dictionary)

Biguanide antidiabetic agents activate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) resulting in decreased glucose production in the liver, increased peripheral glucose uptake and improved utilization of glucose.

(Biguanide Antidiabetic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found that indeed greater STBA was associated with greater plant nitrogen uptake.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Benzphetamine stimulates the release of certain catecholamines, particularly noradrenaline and dopamine, from nerve terminals in the brain and inhibits their uptake.

(Benzphetamine, NCI Thesaurus)

It has calcium chelation activity but seems to inhibit growth of sensitive cells by disrupting nucleoside uptake and metabolism.

(Carbetimer, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic antiparkinson tertiary amine structurally related to atropine, Benztropine Mesylate acts as a central muscarinic antagonist and inhibits dopamine uptake.

(Benztropine Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

A semiquantitative analysis of the average uptake of analyte by body tissue in relation to the total administered dose of the analyte.

(Average Metabolic Standard Uptake Value, NCI Thesaurus)

Aminobenzoic acid may also increase oxygen uptake at the tissue level and may enhance monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity to promote the degradation of serotonin, which in excess, may lead to fibrotic changes.

(Aminobenzoic acid, NCI Thesaurus)