uptake

FREQ #48702

n. 举起, 拿起, 理解, 上风井, 摄入, 吸收 [化] 摄取

发音

US
其它 /ˈʌpteɪk/
其它 /ʌpˈteɪk/

词形变化

uptakes 复数 uptakes uptaken uptakes 三单 uptaking uptook uptaking 现在分词 uptook 过去式 uptaken 过去式 uptaken 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Understanding; comprehension.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The act of lifting or taking up.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A chimney.

    可数 过时 不可数
  5. 5.

    The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.

    可数 过时 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To take up, to lift.

    古体
  2. 2.

    To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.

  3. 3.

    To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

consumption intake ingestion

上位词 3

activity bodily function bodily process

下位词 10

drink eating drinking suck feeding swallow sucking suction deglutition imbibing

相关短语

quick on the uptake on the uptake slow on the uptake

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary