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ingest::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | consume, have, take, take in |
| Has types | touch, try, try out, cannibalize, drink, eat, feed, fill, fuddle, habituate, hit the bottle, imbibe, use, booze, cannibalise, partake, replete, sample, sate, satiate, sop up, suck in, sup, take in, take up, taste |
| Derivation | ingestion |
Examples of ingest
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If her doctor prescribes a new medicine, she Googles it before she'll ingest it.
From the tennessean.com
The problem with radiation in the air is that it is easy to ingest by breathing.
From the latimes.com
You have to re-ingest what you put out and give it a form that's very different.
From the news-journalonline.com
Lilies are probably the most dangerous flower that cats can accidentally ingest.
From the ocregister.com
If you could have Tableau ingest all that data you could come up with solutions.
From the forbes.com
Could they simply not be bothered to ingest the nutrients their mother gave them?
From the hecklerspray.com
What enslaving power causes us to knowingly ingest things that are harmful to us?
From the ocregister.com
Therefore, humans must ingest leucine as an essential amino acid with our food.
From the sciencedaily.com
Is it really dangerous to ingest meat dispatched with lead bullets or shotshells?
From the denverpost.com
- Consume: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- Absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
- 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. ...
- To take into the body, as for digestion
- Ingested poisons are virtually impossible to utilize in a combat situation. A poisoner could administer a potion to an unconscious creature or attempt to dupe someone into drinking or eating something poisoned. Assassins and other characters tend to use ingested poisons outside of combat.
- (Ingesting) Submitting works to the digital repository.
- (CTV) see digitize, capture. The process of loading tape into a computer.
- To obtain food by engulfing it (as opposed to absorbing, which is what fungi do) (see PHAGOTROPHIC).
- In the context of metadata, the ingest process is the method by which metadata is read into a system (e.g. a database import).
