From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take.

• IPA: /ˈɪnteɪk/

intake

1. The place where water, air or other fluid 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.

   the intake of air

4. An act or instance of taking in.

   an intake of oxygen or food

5. (slang, derogatory) A nostril, especially a large one.
6. The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.

   the new intake of students

7. The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
8. A tract of land enclosed.
9. (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.

• French: prise, ingestion
• Italian: assunzione, gestione, presa
• Portuguese: tomada, tomada, ingestão
• Spanish: toma, ingestión

intake (intakes, present participle intaking; simple past intook, past participle intaken)

1. (transitive) To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside.
   • 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference:

     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.

   • 1968, Margaret A. Sherald, NBS Special Publication, number 540, page 671:

     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.

   • 2010, John Tyler, Diary of A Dieter, page 258:

     I deduced that if I am intaking the same amount of calories that I always did during Induction, but I am causing my metabolic rate to slow down, it makes sense that the same amount of calories taken in will not burn off as fast as they once did […]