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   intake

   /ˈɪnteɪk/

   noun

   • 1. an amount of food, air, or another substance taken into the body: "your daily intake of calories"
   • ▪ an act of taking something into the body: "she heard his sharp intake of breath"
   • 2. the people taken into an organization at a particular time: "the new intake of MPs"
   • ▪ an act of taking people into an organization: "the first intake of women was in 1915"
   • 3. a place or structure through which something is taken in, e.g. water into a channel or pipe from a river, fuel or air into an engine, etc.: "cut rectangular holes for the air intake"
   • ▪ the action of taking something in: "facilities for the intake of grain by road"
   • 4. land reclaimed from a moor or common. Northern English

   Word Origin Middle English (originally Scots and northern English): from in + take.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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