intake
noun
1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Similar word(s): consumption, ingestion, uptake
Definition categories: act, activity
2. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
Similar word(s): inlet
Definition categories: man–made, opening
3. the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
Similar word(s): aspiration, inhalation, inspiration
Definition categories: act, breath
Sentences with intake as a noun:
- the intake of air
- the new intake of students
verb
1. To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).