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Retraction vs Intake - What's the difference?

retraction | intake |

As nouns the difference between retraction and intake

is that retraction is retraction, withdrawal while intake is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.

As a verb intake is

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

retraction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act or instance of retracting.
  • A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
  • (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

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    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).

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