uptake

DEFINITIONS OF: uptake

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; eating, feeding
the act of consuming food; deglutition, drink, swallow
the act of swallowing; suck, sucking, suction
the act of sucking; drinking, imbibing, imbibition
the act of consuming liquids; mycophagy
the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild); bite, chomp
the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws; browse, browsing
the act of feeding by continual nibbling; coprophagia, coprophagy
eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity; aerophagia
swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence); draft, draught, gulp, swig
a large and hurried swallow; dining
the act of eating dinner; engorgement
eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation; banqueting, feasting
eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment); graze, grazing
the act of grazing; lunching
the act of eating lunch; repletion, surfeit
eating until excessively full; supping
ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking; degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting
taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; necrophagia, necrophagy
feeding on corpses or carrion; omophagia
the eating of raw food; scatophagy
the eating of excrement or other filth; gulping, guzzling, swilling
the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly; sip
a small drink; potation
the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink)

Type of:: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
an organic process that takes place in the body

“they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids”

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