uptake

About 7.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Understanding; comprehension.
2. noun Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
3. noun The act of lifting or taking up.
4. noun A chimney.
5. noun The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
6. verb To take up, to lift.
7. verb To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
8. verb To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

Similar words

consumption intake ingestion entry take-up turnout fixing acquisition input application

Often followed by

of and by in is was into rate from

Word family

quick on the uptake slow on the uptake uptakes