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uptake
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uptake [′əp‚tāk]
(engineering)
A large pipe for exhaust gases from a boiler furnace that runs upward to a chimney or smokestack.


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Sometimes he may appear confused or slow on the uptake, but he's just pretending.
Kelly was certainly not slow on the uptake and had his mount out in a flash from stall three and the 9-1 chance kept on well to score by three-quarters of a length from Green Beret.
Johnson said he was looking forward to the Twenty20 World Cup, but captain Ricky Ponting conceded Australia had been slow on the uptake with the abbreviated format.
 
 
 
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