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English to English noun
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the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |  | source: wordnet30
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a process of taking up or using up or consuming | | Example: they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids
source: wordnet30
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The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward. | | source: webster1913 verb
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To take into the hand; to take up; to help. | | source: webster1913
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