uptake

Other forms of uptake

plural

uptakes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about uptake

What does uptake mean?

uptake means "the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uptake?

uptake has 2 syllables: up-take. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpˌteɪk/.

What is another word for uptake?

Close synonyms include consumption, ingestion, intake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uptake a common word?

uptake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with uptake?

8 words rhyme with uptake. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.