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Intake vs Enroll - What's the difference?

intake | enroll |

As verbs the difference between intake and enroll

is that intake is to take or draw in in all the senses of the noun while enroll is to enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list.

As a noun intake

is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.

intake

English

Noun

  • The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
  • The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
  • The quantity taken in.
    • the intake of air
  • An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food.
  • The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
    • the new intake of students

    Verb

  • To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

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    enroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enrol (UK) (CA)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
  • * Prescott
    • All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
  • * Milton
    • An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
  • To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
    • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  • To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
    • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
  • (obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register for

    Derived terms

    * enrollee * enroller * enrollment