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Intake vs Inhalation - What's the difference?

intake | inhalation |

As nouns the difference between intake and inhalation

is that intake is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet while inhalation is the act of inhaling.

As a verb intake

is to take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).

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

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    Anagrams

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    inhalation

    English

    (wikipedia inhalation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of inhaling.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation , then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.
  • The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

    • See also

    * inhale ----