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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intake
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an intake of breath (=when you breathe in very quickly and suddenly, especially because you are surprised)
▪ He gave a sharp intake of breath.
▪ His first response was a sharp intake of breath.
calorie intake (=the amount of calories someone eats)
▪ There are several ways you can reduce your calorie intake.
fat intake (=the amount of fat you eat)
▪ You should think about reducing your fat intake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Today, the average intake of 20g a day puts us among the lowest fibre-consumers in the world.
▪ Men and girls 12 to 14 years had average intakes falling 7 % to 22 % below the standard.
▪ U.S. citizens score a little higher than we do, with an average intake of 27g daily.
▪ A recent Government survey found that in women, the average intakes of iron from food were below the recommended levels.
▪ This will give you your average daily calorie intake.
▪ A good average intake is about 20g per day.
daily
▪ The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that stable workers could have been exposed to as much as 190 times the acceptable daily intake.
▪ The panel stressed that these nutrients are important for good health and that a minimum daily intake is important.
▪ Keep a food diary Details of daily nutritional intake are required.
▪ The daily intake should be divided into at least three doses because of the short half-life.
▪ So how do we eat the rest of our daily intake of fat?
▪ The usual daily intake of potassium is 70 to 140 mEq.
▪ It appeared that, in terms of weight, it was roughly the equivalent of an agricultural labourer's daily intake of rice.
▪ It will analyze and graph your daily intake and compare it with the recommended dietary allowances set by the government.
dietary
▪ In addition suboptimal dietary iron intake was found in many of the patients though this was seldom the sole cause for anaemia.
▪ Fifty five patients had dietary intake of iron assessed and data from 47 were evaluable.
▪ One of the preferred methods for estimating usual dietary intakes of individuals is the diet history questionnaire.
▪ Excess dietary energy intake, coffee or tea consumption, wine, beer, spirits or alcohol consumption.
▪ Sulphate concentration in the colon is largely dependent on dietary intake.
excessive
▪ Incontinence is another problem that can begin by excessive alcohol intake.
▪ Being over-generous when pouring one's own is a well documented cause of excessive intake.
fat
▪ Poly-unsaturated fats should constitute the next largest share of your fat intake, after mono-unsaturated fats.
▪ Getting your diet right Reduce fat intake - to 15% of your diet or less.
▪ So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake.
▪ Furthermore, dietary manipulation studies have shown that high fat intake can increase faecal bile acid excretion.
▪ These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake.
fluid
▪ You should also establish the patient's usual pattern of fluid intake and output by tactful questioning.
▪ Patients keep daily diaries of fluid intake and voiding.
▪ An accurate record of Mr Reynolds' fluid intake and output was kept.
▪ If age, weakness, or intercurrent illness prevents adequate fluid intake, then severe hypertonicity may result.
▪ Alternatively, all fluid intake and output may be measured and recorded.
▪ It is usual to record the fluid balance so that intake and output and their relationship may be assessed.
▪ He was encouraged to resume a normal fluid intake and not to restrict fluids because his bladder felt uncomfortable.
high
▪ Furthermore, dietary manipulation studies have shown that high fat intake can increase faecal bile acid excretion.
▪ Similarly, adaptation to very high intakes requires several days and ample urine flow.
▪ Their bodies seem unable to sense a high intake and continue to manufacture cholesterol in excess of requirements.
▪ A high intake causes rats to develop cancer, with damage to the testes and infections.
low
▪ In a peculiar twist, large numbers of Western women mimicked Eastern women in low calorie intake.
new
▪ The next examination was scheduled for April, to be followed shortly by a new intake.
▪ The inner gate closed behind the new intake of prisoners.
▪ The University will reach its target of 5000 students next September with the admission of a new intake of 1150 first years.
sharp
▪ I force her skinny little arms into the position I need and ignore the sharp intake of breath.
▪ There was a sharp intake of breath.
▪ Crystal iced spires in twinkling reflection, Sharp intake of breath at such perfection.
▪ There was a sharp intake of breath behind him, and there she stood in the doorway looking at him.
▪ She heard the sharp intake of his breath and desire flared out of control so that, despite herself, she responded.
▪ Inside the room he could distinctly hear his own breathing - the sharp intake of air, followed by the slower exhalation.
total
▪ The percentage of mature students in relation to the total undergraduate intake was just over 6%.
■ NOUN
air
▪ Having located the air intake manifold we noticed a significant difference between the diagrams in the manuals and our engine.
▪ Ice can crack off into the engine air intakes and cause them to shut down.
▪ Final touches to the tractor included fitting the two original air intakes and filters from the lorry.
▪ Insiders say the front air intake, rounded but not necessarily elliptical, will be below the impact-absorbing front bumper.
▪ The front air intake duct area varies according to the radiator size of each model.
▪ He began hacking at the ice on the gauges and the air intakes.
▪ Original air intakes and filters came from an old lorry.
▪ Ten gallons of water entered the engine room through an air intake, but both engines continued to run normally.
alcohol
▪ There are no studies on the acute effect of alcohol intake on gastric acid secretion in chronic alcoholic patients.
▪ Laminin has been related to alcohol intake.
▪ Laminin concentration is also related to alcohol intake.
▪ Age of starting smoking, cigarettes per day and years of abstinence, and regular alcohol intake.
▪ Cumulative alcohol intake certainly plays a role and other environmental factors, in particular nutrition, may also be important.
▪ The increased healing rate in wine drinkers is consistent with other reports that moderate alcohol intake may be harmless or beneficial.
▪ In the cases studied alcohol intake was never higher than 50 g/day.
calorie
▪ Most people try to do this by restricting their calorie intake, usually by cutting it in half.
▪ In a peculiar twist, large numbers of Western women mimicked Eastern women in low calorie intake.
▪ Many are highly adept at adding up their calorie intake.
▪ So this should help you in keeping the calorie intake low.
▪ The serum concentration of IGF-I and growth velocity both improved with increased calorie intake.
▪ So by rationing these foods you cut calorie intake.
▪ Poor souls, all they were doing was cutting calorie intake - the hard way.
▪ You're effectively cheating your body by reducing your calorie intake and your body sends out different responses because it's confused.
energy
▪ The increase in the serum insulin concentration after steroid treatment may reflect increased energy intake or induction of insulin resistance.
▪ While decreasing your energy intake, you must continue to eat enough essential nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals and trace elements.
▪ Excess dietary energy intake, coffee or tea consumption, wine, beer, spirits or alcohol consumption.
▪ These changes were accompanied by a greater and more sustained increase in energy intake in the steroid group.
fibre
▪ Those allowing themselves 1,500 calories daily might reach a fibre intake of 50g daily.
food
▪ Patients assigned to receive steroids consumed an unrestricted diet and were asked to record their food intake during the first four weeks.
▪ Satiety was increased with a larger bulk of food intake.
▪ This need not mean drastically reducing food intake.
▪ Clearly, a rhythm in food intake might be able to adjust the body clock via several mechanisms.
▪ In addition, these patients usually reduce their food intake when disease flares up.
▪ This type of training is very demanding and rest and food intake are most important.
▪ Use your diary to form a picture of the kind of person you are when it comes to food intake.
▪ It can be produced in sheep by reducing the food intake of ewes in early pregnancy.
protein
▪ Excessive protein intake can be dangerous, putting stress on the kidneys and causing dehydration.
▪ In extreme conditions where very little carbohydrate or fat is eaten, any protein intake can also be used as fuel.
▪ Protein is so important that nearly all diets, nomatterwhat other failings they may have, emphasize adequate protein intake.
▪ The dietary control of plasma phenylalanine concentrations requires rigorous restriction of natural protein intake, often to less than 6 g per day.
▪ To boost your protein intake, choose lentils, beans and pulses, which are all low in fat too.
▪ Indeed, until relatively recently a healthy food intake was described as one that included quite heavy protein intake.
▪ It is no use stimulating muscle growth if your protein intake is insufficient.
water
▪ Mitsubishi already has a robot for cleaning sea water intakes at power stations.
▪ Here again, dilution is impaired, but reduction of water intake below output will lead to a rise in serum tonicity.
▪ They have no specific food requirement and wild rabbits have no significant water intake.
▪ In primary polydipsia, hyponatremia and hypotonicity occur in the face of maximal urinary dilution because water intake simply exceeds water excretion.
▪ Aquasense also monitors the water intake and use of detergent, giving useful energy savings.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Also, buying canned or frozen food rather than fresh food cuts down our vitamin intake by as much as 25-30 percent.
▪ So by rationing these foods you cut calorie intake.
▪ In order to cut down on salt intake, first remove salt containers from the table.
▪ There is some evidence that salt is bad and many people have cut salt intake in recent years.
▪ She shrank so quickly because she cut her daily calorie intake from more than 5,000 to 2,000.
hear
▪ When he heard the deep intake of breath, Joe related.
▪ She heard the soft intake of his breath, then he was drawing her down on to the grass.
▪ She heard the sharp intake of his breath and desire flared out of control so that, despite herself, she responded.
▪ As her eyes closed she heard her own swift intake of breath.
▪ Marian heard a quick intake of breath from Allen, the sound a horse makes when it is about to bolt.
increase
▪ Once you reach your target weight, you can increase your intake up to a maximum of 70 grams a day.
▪ Women may respond to the unpleasant feelings associated with the peak progesterone levels by increasing their caffeine intake.
▪ Finally, causes of increased intake or production of potassium must be considered.
▪ However, on the basis of the findings of this study Universities need not fear increasing their mature student intake.
reduce
▪ However, the objective must be to reduce the intake of all pesticides to the absolute minimum.
▪ They reduced their chemical intake because they now reclaim the metals.
▪ Getting your diet right Reduce fat intake - to 15% of your diet or less.
▪ In addition, these patients usually reduce their food intake when disease flares up.
▪ For the non-obese patients, simply reducing the intake of refined carbohydrate may control the diabetes for a time at least.
▪ It can be produced in sheep by reducing the food intake of ewes in early pregnancy.
▪ You're effectively cheating your body by reducing your calorie intake and your body sends out different responses because it's confused.
▪ If you are the right weight already you could very probably still be healthier if you reduced your intake of saturated fats.
restrict
▪ Most people try to do this by restricting their calorie intake, usually by cutting it in half.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ air intakes on a jet engine
▪ Eberson is the intake officer for the prison.
▪ Pregnant women should reduce their intake of caffeine.
▪ the yearly intake of students
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intake

Intake \In"take`\, n.

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intake

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.

Wiktionary
intake

n. 1 The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet. 2 The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. 3 The quantity taken in. 4 An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food. 5 The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time. vb. To take or draw in (qualifier: in all the senses of the noun).

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WordNet
intake

  1. n. 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

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Wikipedia
Intake

An intake, or especially for aircraft inlet, is an air intake for an engine. Because the modern internal combustion engine is in essence a powerful air pump, like the exhaust system on an engine, the intake must be carefully engineered and tuned to provide the greatest efficiency and power. An ideal intake system should increase the velocity of the air until it travels into the combustion chamber, while minimizing turbulence and restriction of flow.

Intake (land)

An intake is a parcel of land, of the order of , which has been "taken in" from a moor and brought under cultivation. The term is used almost exclusively in the north of England applying to land on the fringes of the Pennines and other moors. The creation of intakes went on from medieval times up to the 19th century.

Several settlements and farms are called intake, for example Intake Farm at on Haworth Moor.

The Headingly cum Burley Inclosure Award (1834) refers to various intakes when describing the roads and paths set out. for example:

'Oates Road:- One other private occupation of the width and in the direction that it is now branching from Holling Lane between two Intakes called Stoney Close and Harris Close belonging to the Curate of Headingly and leading in a Southwardly direction to and into an allotment on Headingly Moor set out for Edward Oates Esquire.

Intake (disambiguation)

Intake may refer to:

  • a business process for accepting new work requests
  • the air intake of an internal combustion engine
  • intake (land), a parcel of land taken in from a moor. From which is named a number of settlements, including:
    • Intack near Blackburn, Lancashire
    • Intake, Leeds
    • Intake, a district of Richmond, South Yorkshire, Sheffield
    • Intake, Doncaster
  • Intake, California (disambiguation)
    • Intake, Butte County, California, former town
    • Intake, Inyo County, California, former town
  • Intake, County Londonderry, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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Usage examples of "intake".

Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.

A quicker method, Lacy told Bucher, would be to open the cooling water intakes and outlets in the main engine room and cut a hole into the auxiliary engine room from the main engine room.

I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.

He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.

At the top of the cloud, when the flier was little more than a red dot, it executed a wide loop and then, to the accompaniment of a citywide intake of breath, it banked to the left and fell like a stone.

There are bruises on his neck and arms from the pressure of the restraining straps during his high-g maneuvers, the result of a 200-mile drag race with the Nebraska heat that ended with one chopper forced down in a cornfield and a coleopter that seems to have sucked a bale of aluminum chaff into an intake and had to stagger home on one engine.

Father and son looked round and Walter Deyre drew in his breath with a little intake of pain.

Intake forms and go through Orientation, and Gately goes over the House rules with her and gives her a copy of the Ennet House Survival Guide, which some resident years gone had written for Pat.

I started to increase my intake of foods containing folic acid as soon as we decided to try for a family.

We spent the rest of the weekend carefully monitoring her folic acid intake.

Within hours of increasing your fluid intake, your cells will be hydrated and performing at increased levels.

Even from a distance of several yards Killian could hear her intake of breath, and then, like one in a trance, she dropped her parcel and approached the dark stallion, her hand lifted wordlessly.

He shook his head, furious with himself, and strode onward, donning his dark glasses as he reached the big open platform between the tubes where dead cultures were slued for drying, lysis, and recycling to the organic intake pipe.

Two of these neurotransmitters are neuropeptide Y, a chemical that is active in turning our carbohydrate cravings off and on, and galanin, which is associated with fat intake.

There were control-cabin windows at the bow, scramjet intakes below the rear edge.