Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An opening by which a fluid is admitted into a container or conduit.
- n. The act of taking in.
- n. The quantity taken in.
- n. Something, especially energy, taken in.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A taking or drawing in.
- n. That which is taken in. Specifically
- n. Quantity taken in.
- n. A tract of land, as of a common, inclosed; an inclosure; part of a common field planted or sown when the other part lies fallow.
- n. Also intack.
- n. The point at which a narrowing or contraction begins, as in a tube or a stocking.
- n. In hydraulics, the point at which water is received into a pipe or channel: opposed to outlet.
- n. In mining: The airway going inbye, or toward the interior of the mine.
- n. The air moving in that direction.
- n. Land taken in from a waste place, or from a common or tidal river.
Wiktionary
- n. The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- n. The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- n. The quantity taken in.
- n. An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food.
- v. To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to
outlet . - n. the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- n. The quantity taken in.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- n. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
- n. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Etymologies
- From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Well, the way our office worked, you sat down and, about every two weeks, and did what we called intake, and it still works that way.”
“When water at the intake is at extreme low level, there is thus an additional discharge area of approximately 300 square feet cross section over the depressed section.”
“As such anybody can buy ALC at the nearest health food store and reading the instructions on the label intake two Carnitine tablets or caplets a day, preferably on an empty stomach.”
“But there are mysteries - who goes to the markets and whose culinary intake is restricted by the ration book?”
“Controlling your energy intake is much easier and more effective than attempting to increase your energy output, especially if you have no established exercise routine.”
“And in some of the poorest populations, about 80 percent of the carbohydrate intake is from white rice.”
Voice of America: Hunger in Focus: Three Questions on Golden Rice
“Kaayla Daniels, Ph. D., author of "The Whole Soy Story," suggests that soy's negative impact on the thyroid occurs mostly when isoflavone intake is more than 30 mg daily.”
The Huffington Post: Craig Cooper: Soy: When It's Good, When It's Bad, And How To Tell
“If the US consumes X quantity of salt each year and there are 300 mil Americans, it does not follow that my salt intake is x divided by 300 mil nor does it mean that I cannot have a kosher pickle.”
“Of course, even in organs of the type A or B, the underlying mechanism of oxygen intake is identical to that in case A: oxygen diffuses in thru the cell membranes.”
“If that document adopts the recommendation of the advisory committee whose findings largely inform the final guidelines, Americans will be urged to gradually reduce their sodium intake from the more than 3,000 mg we now consume, on average, to just 1,500 mg daily, well below the 2,300 mg that the current (2005) guidelines allow.”
The Washington Post: Is 1,500 mg of sodium a realistic goal?
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