intake

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=take

CIDE DICTIONARY

intake, n. 

•  The place where water, air, or other substance is taken into a pipe, conduit, or machine; -- opposed to outlet.  [1913 Webster]
•  the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.  [1913 Webster]
•  The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intake, n.
1 a the action of taking in. b an instance of this.
2 a number or the amount taken in or received.
3 a place where water is taken into a channel or pipe from a river, or fuel or air enters an engine etc.
4 an airway into a mine.
5 N.Engl. land reclaimed from a moor etc.

THESAURUS

intake

access, adit, admission, air lock, approach, avails, box office, commissions, corridor, credit, credits, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, gains, gangplank, gangway, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, hall, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inlet, input, insertion, insinuation, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leakage, make, means of access, net, net income, net receipts, opening, output, passage, passageway, penetration, percolation, proceeds, produce, profits, receipt, receipts, receivables, reception, returns, revenue, royalties, seepage, take, take-in, takings, unearned income, vestibule, way, way in, yield