Food or air (6 letters)

{ Answer }

INTAKE

{ Related Clues }

Food
___ valve
Amount eaten
Dieter's concern
Exhaust's opposite
Kind of valve
Outflow's opposite
Output's opposite
Quantity consumed
Type of value
Type of valve
Air, to a jet engine
Kind of valve in a car
Mine's air shaft
Opening allowing entry of air or fluid

{ Tags }

air, allowing, amount, car, concern, dieters, eaten, engine, entry, fluid, food, intake, kind, mines, opening, opposite, outputs, quantity, shaft, type, valve

{ Notes }

The answer INTAKE is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 800 puzzles.

{ Definition }

INTAKE as a noun:

1. (consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake) = the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

2. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container