- 1吸收（身體或植物吸收養分、水分等）；(片語)理解力，quick/slow on the uptake 指反應快或慢
The act of taking something in or absorbing it - your body's 'uptake' of a vitamin, or a plant's 'uptake' of water from the soil. Away from science, the phrase 'quick on the uptake' or 'slow on the uptake' describes how fast someone understands things, especially jokes or hints.
From the word’s history
From Middle English uptaken 'to take up, lift'; up + take.
源自中古英文 uptaken「拿起」，就是 up 加 take。
組成up + take.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
uptakenoun/ˈʌpteɪk/
- 1
Understanding; comprehension.
- 2
Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
- 3
The act of lifting or taking up.
- 4
datedA chimney.
- The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track.
- 5
datedThe upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
uptakeverb/ʌpˈteɪk/
- 1
archaicTo take up, to lift.
- He hearkned to his reason, and the childe Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].
- 2
To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
- 3
To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
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