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uptaking

uptaking is the present participle and gerund of uptake.

Meaning of uptake

Verb

uptake (third-person singular simple present uptakes, present participle uptaking, simple past uptook, past participle uptaken)

  1. (archaic) To take up, to lift.
    • He hearkned to his reason, and the childe
      Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  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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Noun

uptaking (plural uptakings)

  1. An understanding; comprehension.
    • When admitted to perfect vision, we shall find, that our clearest apprehensions and brightest uptakings of him below, differed but a degree from ignorance.1840, James Meikle, Solitude Sweetened, page 197

Forms of uptaking

pluraluptakings

Questions about uptaking

What does uptaking mean?
Uptaking means an understanding; comprehension.
What is uptaking the present participle and gerund of?
Uptaking is the present participle and gerund of uptake.
What part of speech is uptaking?
Uptaking is a noun.
What is the plural of uptaking?
The plural of uptaking is uptakings.

Words near uptaking in the dictionary

  1. uptake
  2. uptaken
  3. uptaker
  4. uptakers
  5. uptakes
  6. uptaking
  7. uptakings
  8. uptalk
  9. uptalked
  10. uptalker
  11. uptalkers

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