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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intake \In"take'\, noun
1. The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to {outlet}.
2. the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
3. The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intake
noun
1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: {consumption}, {ingestion}, {uptake}]
2: an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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