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countable and uncountable, plural intakes
The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet. examples
The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. examples
The quantity taken in. quotations examples
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, page 74
An act or instance of taking in. quotations examples
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 2022-11-27
The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time. examples
The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral. examples
A tract of land enclosed. examples
(UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in. examples
third-person singular simple present intakes, present participle intaking, simple past intook, past participle intaken
To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside. quotations examples
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
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