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Intake vs Withdrawal - What's the difference?

intake | withdrawal |

As nouns the difference between intake and withdrawal

is that intake is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet while withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money.

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

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

    Anagrams

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    withdrawal

    English

    (wikipedia withdrawal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
    • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.

    • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit