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intake
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| intake valve
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intake
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun intake has 3 senses
- intake(n = noun.act) consumption, ingestion, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); Array has particulars: eating, feeding, deglutition, drink, swallow, suck, sucking, suction, drinking, imbibing, imbibition
- intake(n = noun.artifact) inlet - an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container; Array has particulars: air horn, siamese, siamese connection
- intake(n = noun.act) aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration - the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing; Array is a part of breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
is a kind of opening
is a kind of breath
has particulars: gasp, pant, drag, puff, pull
CIDE DICTIONARY
intake, n.
- The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to
outlet . [1913 Webster] - the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. [1913 Webster]
- The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
intake, n.
1 a the action of taking in. b an instance of this.
2 a number or the amount taken in or received.
3 a place where water is taken into a channel or pipe from a river, or fuel or air enters an engine etc.
4 an airway into a mine.
5 N.Engl. land reclaimed from a moor etc.
1 a the action of taking in. b an instance of this.
2 a number or the amount taken in or received.
3 a place where water is taken into a channel or pipe from a river, or fuel or air enters an engine etc.
4 an airway into a mine.
5 N.Engl. land reclaimed from a moor etc.
THESAURUS
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
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