Crossword-Solution: UPTAKE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uptake | v. t. | To take into the hand; to take up; to help. |
| Uptake | n. | The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward. |
| Uptake | n. | Understanding; apprehension. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UPTAKE | anagram | KETUPA, PAEKTU, TAKEUP |
We have 21 clues for the answer “UPTAKE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mental grasp | 1 answer |
| a process of taking up or using up or consuming | 1 answer |
| Understanding: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| The dim are slow on it | 1 answer |
| Slow on the ___ (unintelligent) | 1 answer |
| Slow on the ___ (thickheaded) | 1 answer |
| Slow on the ___ (not smart) | 1 answer |
| Slow on the ___ (dense) | 1 answer |
| Slow on the ___ | 1 answer |
| Quick on the __ (smart) | 1 answer |
| Quick on the __ | 1 answer |
| Capacity for understanding. | 1 answer |
| Ventilating shaft | 3 answers |
| BE UNDERSTANDING OF | 10 answers |
| ABSORPTION ___ | 46 answers |
| Comprehension | 53 answers |
| Trepidation | 61 answers |
| CONSUMPTION ___ | 62 answers |
| Scope | 66 answers |
| Grasp | 73 answers |
| Understanding | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UPTAKE (5)
But though there were never circumstances to which boys could not adapt themselves in half an hour, older folk are slower in the uptake, and I am sure they stood and gaped at the changes so suddenly being worked in our midst, and scarce knew their way home now in the dark.
And I could but stare upon her; for though I now see very well what she was driving at (and perhaps some justification for the same), I was never swift at the uptake in such flimsy talk.
For she was Polynesian, glowing, golden, lovely and lovable, royal Polynesian.” Again he paused to kiss his hand to the memory of her, and Slim, alias Bruce Cadogan Cavendish, took advantage to interject: “Huh! Maybe you didn’t shine in scholarship, but at least you gleaned a vocabulary out of Oxford.” “And in the South Seas garnered a better vocabulary from the lexicon of Love,” Percival was quick on the uptake.
And, to begin with, let all those attend to Old Honest who are slow in the uptake in the things of religion.
There are other bacteria commonly found in soil that uptake ammonia gas and change it to the nitrates that plants and soil life forms need to make other proteins.
Quotes with UPTAKE (3)
Mira, I'm about to be naked," Blue said as he whipped off his belt and tossed it on the floor. "So watch out. Well, in my underwear.""I've seen you in your bathing suit," Mira said. "It's the same thing.""It is not the same thing," Blue said. "When it's accompanied by seventies porn music, it's an X-rated strip show." Blue yanked off his shirt. "Freddie, you're kind of slow on the uptake. Eine kleine porn music, please.
Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point…
God has a plan for everyone he created and none of his creations is meant to be purposeless. Every human being for that matter was brought forth with a specific and unique duty to uptake while he lives on earth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1967–2022).