intake
pronunciation
How to pronounce intake in British English:
UK [ˈɪnteɪk]
How to pronounce intake in American English:
US [ˈɪnteɪk]
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- Noun:
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
Word Origin
- intake (n.)
- c. 1800, "place where water is taken into a channel or pipe," from verbal phrase, from in (adv.) + take (v.). Meaning "act of taking in" (food, breath, etc.) is first attested 1808.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The local population 's vitamin intake has soared .
- 2. Studies linking calcium intake and heart-attack risk are similarly confusing .
- 3. Alcohol intake had an interesting relationship to weight changes .
- 4. Inclusion of a keyrecommendation for increasing seafood intake .
- 5. And vitamin a intake had soared .