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/

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

5. The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.

   the new intake of students

6. A tract of land enclosed.
7. (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.

Translations

place where water or air is taken in

• Finnish: ottamo (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inntak n

  Nynorsk: inntak n

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• Swedish: intag (sv) n

the quantity taken in

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝取量／摄取量

• Finnish: otto (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inntak n

  Nynorsk: inntak n

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• Swedish: intag (sv) n

act of taking in

• Bulgarian: поемане (bg) n (poemane)
• French: prise (fr), ingestion (fr)
• Galician: inxesta f
• Italian: assunzione (it), gestione (it), presa (it)
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• Portuguese: tomada (pt), tomada (pt), ingestão (pt)
• Spanish: toma (es), ingestión (es)

people taken in at a particular time

• Bulgarian: набор (bg) m (nabor)
• Finnish: sisäänotto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inntak n

  Nynorsk: inntak n

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Verb

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

1. To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.
   • Franklin D. Roosevelt

     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 (issue 540, page 671)

     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.

   • 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