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ingest en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/

Etymology

From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The process of importing data or other material into a system.
    • Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area. 2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78:
    • Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television. 2007, Edmund A. Williams, National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook:

ingest en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/

Etymology

From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
  2. (broadly, of a jet engine, transitive) To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.
    • The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.
  3. (transitive) To bring or import into a system.
    • While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community. 2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, page 176:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ingested Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ingested Tense=Past lexicographic
ingesting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ingests Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

defecate · regurgitate

Deriveds

reingest · ingestive · ingestible · coingest · noningested · uningested · misingest · ingestable · ingester

Hypernyms

receive · admit

Hyponyms

imbibe · drink · break one's fast · eat · slattern away · lace into · dig into · tuck into

Meronyms

swallow · digest

Synonyms

discuss · touch · put away · get outside · consume · partake · ingest

Translations (30)

fi niellä (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · de einnehmen vt. (Med.) (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · sk vhltnúť (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · gl inxerir (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ru загла́тывать (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · sk vsať (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · cs strávit (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · es deglutir (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · eo gluti (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ru глота́ть (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · bg пое́мам (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · fr ingérer (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · el καταπίνω (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · hu bevisz (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ro ingera (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · pt ingerir (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · sk nasať (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ca ingerir (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · bg поглъ́щам (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · es ingerir (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ru прогла́тывать (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · cy amlyncu (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · it ingerire (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · sv inta (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · io ingestar (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ru поглоща́ть (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · de aufnehmen (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · ru заса́сывать (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · sk prehltnúť (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) · eo engluti (to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal)