Definitions for intakes

intakes in·take

Spelling: [in-teyk]
IPA: /ˈɪnˌteɪk/

Intakes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 283 anagrams from letters in intakes (aeiknst).

Definitions for intakes

noun

  1. the place or opening at which a fluid is taken into a channel, pipe, etc.
  2. an act or instance of taking in:
  3. something that is taken in.
  4. a quantity taken in:
  5. a narrowing; contraction.

Origin of intakes

First recorded in 1515-25; noun use of verb phrase take in

Examples for intakes

All we had to do was rebuild the intake dam and clean out the ditch.

Her husband takes comfort in the relative peace afforded by an intake of troubled adolescents.

It was nine miles from the point to the intake of the river by water and fifteen miles by land.

By law, Social Security will stop paying benefits in excess of its intake as soon as the "trust fund" is exhausted.

He could get the odor faintly through the intake valve of his helmet.

For example, there is neither an intake or exhaust manifold on the motor.

Then, with an intake of the breath and of understanding, he lowered them.

Similarly, the results of this study should not drastically increase your intake of Indian food.

When Strauss-Kahn crossed that bridge, he was delivered to intake—or, as we inmates call it, “the bullpen.”

With an intake of the breath, the medium started, straightened, opened her eyes.

Word Value for intakes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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