intake
/ˈɪnteɪk/
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Australia/ˈɪntæɪk/
intake noun: the place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
Noun
intake (countable and uncountable, plural intakes)
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- The quantity taken in.
- the intake of air
- 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
- An act or instance of taking in.
- an intake of oxygen or food
- 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
- A nostril, especially a large one.
- The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
- the new intake of students
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
- The 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...
Verb
intake (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.
- 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
intake meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
intake in Tamil
- உள்வாய், கொள் பொருள் அளவு, கொள் வாய், கொள்திறம், உட்கோள், உட்கொள் அளவு
intake in Urdu
- مدخل
intake in Bengali
- ঘেরা জমি, জল ভরার স্থান, নলের সঙ্কুচিত অংশ, নলের সঙ্কীর্ণ অংশ
intake in Malayalam
- വർഷത്തിൽ ചേർത്ത കുട്ടികളുടെ എണ്ണം, പ്രവേശനം ലഭിച്ചവർ, ജല പ്രവേശമാർഗ്ഗം
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- intake in Kannada
- ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಒಳಕ್ಕೆ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಗಾಳಿಕಿಂಡಿ, ಇಂಧನ ಕಿಂಡಿ
- intake in Indonesian
- bangunan sadap
Examples of intake in a sentence
- The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
- He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.
- Because of his low calcium intake, the process of osteozecathia had begun.
Forms of intake
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | intakes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | intakes |
| present participle | intaking |
| past | intook |
| past participle | intaken |
Origin of intake
From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.
Words formed from intake
Phrases with intake
Questions about intake
- What does intake mean?
- Intake means the place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- What is intake in Tamil?
- Intake in Tamil is உள்வாய், கொள் பொருள் அளவு, கொள் வாய். See Intake meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is intake?
- Intake can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce intake?
- Intake is pronounced /ˈɪnteɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of intake?
- The plural of intake is intakes.
Words near intake in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intake (page history and authors); intake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intake (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intake (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intake (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intake (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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