intake

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quantity taken in.

   the intake of air

2. 2
   noun

   An act or instance of taking in.

   an intake of oxygen or food

3. 3
   noun

   The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.

   the new intake of students

4. 4
   noun

   The part of language input that is actually processed by a learner.

   […]Due to internal and external processing restraints, only part of the input becomes intake, only part of the intake becomes acquired, and only part of the acquired intake can be used by the learner.

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of inhaling

7. 7
   noun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

8. 8
   noun

   an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container

Etymology

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