Ingest
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in the substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking. In single-celled organisms, ingestion can take place through taking the substance through the cell membrane.
Besides nutritional items, other substances which may be ingested include medication (where ingestion is termed oral administration), recreational drugs, and substances considered inedible such as foreign bodies or excrement. Ingestion is a common route taken by pathogenic organisms and poisons entering the body.
Ingestion can also refer to a mechanism picking up something and making it enter an internal hollow of that mechanism, e.g. “a grille was fitted to prevent the pump from ingesting driftwood”.
Ingest (verb)
To take into the body, as for digestion.
Ingest (verb)
To bring or import into a system.
Ingest (noun)
The process of importing data or other material into a system.
Digest (verb)
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
“to digest laws”
Digest (verb)
To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
Digest (verb)
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Digest (verb)
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Digest (verb)
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Digest (verb)
To undergo digestion.
“I just ate an omelette and I’m waiting for it to digest.”
Digest (verb)
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest (verb)
To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Digest (verb)
To ripen; to mature.
Digest (verb)
To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
Digest (noun)
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Digest (noun)
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
“Comyn’s Digest”
“the United States Digest”
Digest (noun)
The result of applying a hash function to a message.