intake

Etymology

From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.

noun

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
   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
4. 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. 2022-11-24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, retrieved 2022-11-27
5. The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
   the new intake of students
6. The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
7. A tract of land enclosed.
8. (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.

verb

1. 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 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