uptake
/ˈʌpteɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track."
- "He hearkned to his reason, and the childe Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...]."
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”).