UPTAKE


Meaning of UPTAKE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

quick on the uptake (= able to understand quickly what someone is saying )

He’s a good interviewer, tough and quick on the uptake .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

quick

I thought it would be evident; you are generally very quick on the uptake .

slow

Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.

In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake .

Could anyone really be that slow on the uptake ? wondered Pascoe.

And so, finally, to Anthony O'Hear, intellectual and all-round clever fellow, albeit a bit slow on the uptake .

A bit slow on the uptake , you might think, Haringey's finance department.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

slow on the uptake

A bit slow on the uptake, you might think, Haringey's finance department.

And so, finally, to Anthony O'Hear, intellectual and all-round clever fellow, albeit a bit slow on the uptake.

Could anyone really be that slow on the uptake? wondered Pascoe.

In fact I've had to conclude that I am generally rather slow on the uptake.

Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The disease limits the uptake of water and nutrients into the tree.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Among numerous negative results he found some quite simple compounds, aldehydes and fatty acids, which stimulated oxygen uptake .

Disease activity must therefore be derived from the degree of abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans.

Sarah wasn't slow on the uptake this time.

Table 2.1 compares National Certificate uptake over the past three sessions.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.