intake

English

Etymology

From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- +‎ take. More at in-, take.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnteɪk/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

intake (countable and uncountable, plural intakes)

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

   the intake of air

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

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

4. An act or instance of taking in.

   an intake of oxygen or food

   • 2022 November 24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online‎, Associated Newspapers, retrieved 2022-11-27:

     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.

5. (slang, derogatory) A nostril, especially a large one.
6. The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.

   the new intake of students

7. The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
8. A tract of land enclosed.
9. (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.

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Verb

intake (third-person singular simple present intakes, present participle intaking, simple past intook, past participle intaken)

1. (transitive) To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.
   • 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference:

     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.

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

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

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

     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 […]

Derived terms

• intaker
• intake manifold
• intake system

Anagrams

• Aitken, Kantei, kaiten, kentia, kinate, take in, take-in, tankie