Intake Meaning
/ˈɪnteɪk/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
nounThe beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
Sentence Examples
After his heart attack, Jim had to cut down on his sugar intake.
Tom's doctor advised him to cut down on his sugar intake.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor recommended increasing your daily ____ of fruits and vegetables to stay healthy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The doctor advised her to reduce her daily ____ of salt to help lower her high blood pressure.
Word Origin & History
From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In 2010 almost 120,000 people died prematurely and 108 million life years were lost—because of inadequate vitamin A intake."
— 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 74:
"The company wasn't allowed to make him 'forcibly participate in seminars and end-of-week drinks frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available', the court said."
— 2022 November 24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, retrieved 27 Nov 2022:
"[…]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."
— 1994, David J. Shook, “FL/L2 Reading, Grammatical Information, and the Input-to-Intake Phenomenon”, in Applied Language Learning, volume 5, number 1, Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, page 58:
"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."
— 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference:
"The particle concentration in the ascending hot current of the combustion product have^([sic]) been measured by intaking the current into the counter close to the sample plate in the furnace."
— 1968, Margaret A. Sherald, NBS Special Publication, number 540, page 671:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor recommended increasing your daily ____ of fruits and vegetables to stay healthy.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The doctor advised her to reduce her daily ____ of salt to help lower her high blood pressure.