Intake \In"take`\, n.
1. The place where water, air, or other substance is taken
into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet.
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2. the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or
cylinder.
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3. The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
intake
n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, uptake]
2: an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or
container
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "intake":
access, adit, admission, air lock, approach, avails, box office,
commissions, corridor, credit, credits, disposable income,
dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, entrance,
entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, gains, gangplank, gangway,
gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts,
hall, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming,
infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inlet, input,
insertion, insinuation, interpenetration, introduction,
introgression, intrusion, leakage, make, means of access, net,
net income, net receipts, opening, output, passage, passageway,
penetration, percolation, proceeds, produce, profits, receipt,
receipts, receivables, reception, returns, revenue, royalties,
seepage, take, take-in, takings, unearned income, vestibule, way,
way in, yield
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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