intake en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɪnteɪk/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɪntæɪk/ (Australia)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- (countable, uncountable) The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
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(countable, uncountable) The quantity taken in.
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:the intake of air
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
- (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable) A nostril, especially a large one.
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(countable, uncountable) The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
the new intake of students
- (countable, uncountable) The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- (countable, uncountable) A tract of land enclosed.
- (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
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(countable, qualifier:language learning, uncountable) 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 Center, page 58:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| intakes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
air intake · intake valve · intake system · avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder · intake manifold · intake silencer · adequate intake
Translations (29)
fr prise (act of taking in) · pt tomada (act of taking in) · nn inntak (people taken in at a particular time) · bg поемане (act of taking in) · ca ingestió (act of taking in) · nb inntak (quantity taken in) · it assunzione (act of taking in) · es ingesta (quantity taken in) · sv intag (quantity taken in) · nn inntak (place where fluid is taken in) · nb inntak (people taken in at a particular time) · gl inxesta (act of taking in) · fi ottamo (place where fluid is taken in) · it presa (act of taking in) · fi kavennus (beginning of a contraction or narrowing) · sv intag (place where fluid is taken in) · fr ingestion (act of taking in) · nn inntak (quantity taken in) · pt ingestão (act of taking in) · ca presa (act of taking in) · fi suljettu alue (enclosed tract of land) · nb inntak (place where fluid is taken in) · fi sisäänotto (people taken in at a particular time) · it gestione (act of taking in) · cmn 攝取量 /摄取量 (quantity taken in) · fi otto (quantity taken in) · id bangunan sadap (place where fluid is taken in) · bg набор (people taken in at a particular time) · fi ottaminen (act of taking in)