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uptake

/uhp-teyk/US // ˈʌpˌteɪk //UK // (ˈʌpˌteɪk) //

摄取,摄取量,吸收,摄入量

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
    • : an act or instance of taking up; a lifting: the uptake of fertilizer by machines.
    • : Also called take-up. Machinery. a pipe or passage leading upward from below, as for conducting smoke or a current of air.
    • : Physiology. absorption.

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Examples

  • That’s such a giant amount that we’ll almost certainly need to use a variety of methods to get anywhere close, including planting trees and increasing carbon uptake in agricultural soils.

  • Woodall is exploring asbestos sites because he hopes to find one that might work well for a subsequent field trial to evaluate ways of accelerating carbon uptake.

  • For now, Scroll has produced barely any revenue for its partners, a slow uptake that has made some media executives question how much to promote it on their sites.

  • If you had asked me to guess all the ways that a program like that could fail, it would’ve taken me a while to guess that you simply didn’t get parental uptake.

  • In addition to the pharma manufacturers, and distributors, and advocates, there’s one more institution that played a very large role in the massive uptake of prescription opioids.

  • But it shows that the Romney team is pretty quick on the uptake.

  • It is too early to tell, but we are hopeful to see if there is an uptake in sales given this recent exposure.

  • Those drugs are SSRIs—serotonin uptake inhibitors—and they spin their mood magic by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain.

  • "Say 'at it is," cried Jess, who was quicker in the uptake than her daughter.

  • And in that look old Fanny, slow in the uptake though she undoubtedly was, read a tremendous piece of news.

  • The radiobiologist then attempts to interpret the accumulated evidence of uptake of radionuclides.

  • Comparison of the resulting oxygen uptake with glycerol and with glycerol plus catalase is shown in Figure 11.

  • He appreciated the fact that the other was, to use an American colloquialism, "quick on the uptake."