intake

plural intakes

1. countableuncountableThe place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
2. countableuncountableThe beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
3. countableuncountableThe quantity taken in.

   the intake of air

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   In 2010 almost 120,000 people died prematurely and 108 million life years were lost—because of inadequate vitamin A intake.

   2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 74

4. countableuncountableAn act or instance of taking in.

   an intake of oxygen or food

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   The company wasn't allowed to make him 'forcibly participate in seminars and end-of-week drinks frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available', the court said.

   2022 November 24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, retrieved 27 Nov 2022

5. countablederogatoryslanguncountableA nostril, especially a large one.
6. countableuncountableThe people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.

   the new intake of students

7. countableuncountableThe process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
8. countableuncountableA tract of land enclosed.
9. UKcountabledialectaluncountableAny kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
10. countableuncountablelanguage learninghuman sciencesThe part of language input that is actually processed by a learner.

    […]Due to internal and external processing restraints, only part of the input becomes intake, only part of the intake becomes acquired, and only part of the acquired intake can be used by the learner.

    1994, David J. Shook, “FL/L2 Reading, Grammatical Information, and the Input-to-Intake Phenomenon”, in Applied Language Learning, volume 5, number 1, Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, page 58

present singular third person intakes · participle present intaking · past intook · participle past intaken

1. transitiveTo take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.

   Well, I "intook" the general situation west of the Mississippi because I did not get much of a chance to see things east of the Mississippi.

   1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference

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   The particle concentration in the ascending hot current of the combustion product have^([sic]) been measured by intaking the current into the counter close to the sample plate in the furnace.

   1968, Margaret A. Sherald, NBS Special Publication, number 540, page 671

   I deduced that if I am intaking the same amount of calories that I always did during Induction, but I am causing my metabolic rate to slow down, it makes sense that the same amount of calories taken in will not burn off as fast as they once did […]

   2010, John Tyler, Diary of A Dieter, page 258