English edit

Verb edit

uptaking

  1. present participle and gerund of uptake

Noun edit

uptaking (plural uptakings)

  1. An understanding; comprehension.
    • 1840, James Meikle, Solitude Sweetened, page 197:
      When admitted to perfect vision, we shall find, that our clearest apprehensions and brightest uptakings of him below, differed but a degree from ignorance.