intake
noun
[ ˈɪnteɪk ]
• an amount of food, air, or another substance taken into the body.
• "your daily intake of calories"
• the people taken into an organization at a particular time.
• "the new intake of MPs"
• a 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"
• land reclaimed from a moor or common.
Origin:
Middle English (originally Scots and northern English): from in + take.
