uptake

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
  2. noun a process of taking up or using up or consuming

Etymology

From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

consumption, ingestion, intake

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