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1an amount of food, air, or another substance taken into the body: your daily intake of calories his alcohol intake
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an act of taking something into the body: she heard his sharp intake of breath [mass noun]: a protective factor is the intake of cereal fibre
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2 [treated as singular or plural] the people taken into an organization at a particular time: the new intake of MPs
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an act of taking people into an organization: the first intake of women was in 1915
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3a 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
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[mass noun] the action of taking something in: facilities for the intake of grain by road
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4 [mass noun] Northern English land reclaimed from a moor or common.
