Ingest
verb
To take food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
Every day you ingest a wide variety of foods.
Often appears as...
- ingest food
- ingest toxins
verb
To take in and assimilate, especially mentally.
She ingested the complex data in minutes.
Often appears as...
- ingest information
- ingest knowledge
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To take in information and store it in the memory log.
The system is designed to ingest and process hundreds of terabytes of data.
Often appears as...
- ingest data
- ingest terabytes
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To take food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
Every day you ingest a wide variety of foods.
Often appears as...
- ingest food
- ingest toxins
verb
To take in and assimilate, especially mentally.
She ingested the complex data in minutes.
Often appears as...
- ingest information
- ingest knowledge
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To take in information and store it in the memory log.
The system is designed to ingest and process hundreds of terabytes of data.
Often appears as...
- ingest data
- ingest terabytes
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Ingesting
Used when literally consuming something by eating or drinking.
Be careful not to ingest spoiled milk.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Food Items
Can also refer to swallowing non-food substances, such as medicine or chemicals.
Doctors recommend against ingesting that kind of medication without supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Ingest' doesn't always mean you did it on purpose; accidental ingestion can occur.
The child ingested a small toy and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Ingesting
Used when literally consuming something by eating or drinking.
Be careful not to ingest spoiled milk.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Food Items
Can also refer to swallowing non-food substances, such as medicine or chemicals.
Doctors recommend against ingesting that kind of medication without supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Ingest' doesn't always mean you did it on purpose; accidental ingestion can occur.
The child ingested a small toy and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Ingesting
Used when literally consuming something by eating or drinking.
Be careful not to ingest spoiled milk.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Food Items
Can also refer to swallowing non-food substances, such as medicine or chemicals.
Doctors recommend against ingesting that kind of medication without supervision.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Ingest' doesn't always mean you did it on purpose; accidental ingestion can occur.
The child ingested a small toy and had to be rushed to the hospital.
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The birds and the bees...
Those that have long penile appendages are not bigger or stronger or otherwise any different at all. So going back to our biological minds, then, we might think that females should choose to have sex with the guys that have the shorter appendages, because she can use her time for other avoiding predators, taking care of young, finding and ingesting food.
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The strange politics of...
is the scope of this influence. It makes perfect sense, and it's a very good emotion for us to have, that disgust would make me change the way that I perceive the physical world whenever contamination is possible. It makes less sense that an emotion that was built to prevent me from ingesting poison should predict
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The big impact of small...
the powers that most people want ingest enough if you ask people specifics like do you want control of economic power do you want control or fair the Social Security system they say yesterday and it's quite an interesting aspect thing we have to do is to build that individual support for
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How the food you eat...
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer. And the more fiber you ingest, the more fiber-digesting bacteria colonize your gut.
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How do vitamins work? -...
they're the building blocks that keep the body running. Vitamins are organic compounds we need to ingest in small amounts to keep functioning. They're the body's builders, defenders and maintenance workers, helping it to build muscle and bone, make use of nutrients,
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Sneezing Free Diving...
several times it's iguanas snot and its really salty what they're actually doing is excreting the salt that they take in when they ingest all that seaweed get it from all angles here by basking these iguanas will have raised their body temperature
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Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...
They are what we just said -- facial features, hair structure, skin color. There are also a number of features that vary between continents like that that have to do with how we metabolize food that we ingest, or that have to do
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The science of milk -...
In fact, since it has all of the vital nutrients for development and growth, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, and water, milk is the only thing a baby even needs to ingest for the first six months of life.
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Captain Charles Moore on...
up to a million times their levels in the surrounding seawater. We wanted to see if the most common fish in the deep ocean, at the base of the food chain, was ingesting these poison pills. We did hundreds of necropsies,
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Gaboon Adder vs. Rat PIPE...
jesting the rats tissues from the inside out now here's where you stand out in the pantheon of snake t'en as you ingest your booty you reveal the most impressive bags of any snake in the world
Video examples
The birds and the bees...
Those that have long penile appendages are not bigger or stronger or otherwise any different at all. So going back to our biological minds, then, we might think that females should choose to have sex with the guys that have the shorter appendages, because she can use her time for other avoiding predators, taking care of young, finding and ingesting food.
Video examples
The strange politics of...
is the scope of this influence. It makes perfect sense, and it's a very good emotion for us to have, that disgust would make me change the way that I perceive the physical world whenever contamination is possible. It makes less sense that an emotion that was built to prevent me from ingesting poison should predict
Video examples
The big impact of small...
the powers that most people want ingest enough if you ask people specifics like do you want control of economic power do you want control or fair the Social Security system they say yesterday and it's quite an interesting aspect thing we have to do is to build that individual support for
Video examples
How the food you eat...
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer. And the more fiber you ingest, the more fiber-digesting bacteria colonize your gut.
Video examples
How do vitamins work? -...
they're the building blocks that keep the body running. Vitamins are organic compounds we need to ingest in small amounts to keep functioning. They're the body's builders, defenders and maintenance workers, helping it to build muscle and bone, make use of nutrients,
Video examples
Sneezing Free Diving...
several times it's iguanas snot and its really salty what they're actually doing is excreting the salt that they take in when they ingest all that seaweed get it from all angles here by basking these iguanas will have raised their body temperature
Video examples
Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...
They are what we just said -- facial features, hair structure, skin color. There are also a number of features that vary between continents like that that have to do with how we metabolize food that we ingest, or that have to do
Video examples
The science of milk -...
In fact, since it has all of the vital nutrients for development and growth, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals, and water, milk is the only thing a baby even needs to ingest for the first six months of life.
Video examples
Captain Charles Moore on...
up to a million times their levels in the surrounding seawater. We wanted to see if the most common fish in the deep ocean, at the base of the food chain, was ingesting these poison pills. We did hundreds of necropsies,
Video examples
Gaboon Adder vs. Rat PIPE...
jesting the rats tissues from the inside out now here's where you stand out in the pantheon of snake t'en as you ingest your booty you reveal the most impressive bags of any snake in the world
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Quote examples
Adam Rapp
American Novelist
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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Alison Brie
American Actress
Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.
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Sam Harris
American Author
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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Richard Thaler
American Economist
Everyone knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.
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Jeff Dean
American Musician
Health care - the ability of neural networks to ingest lots of data and make predictions is very well suited to this area, and potentially will have a huge societal impact.
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Barry Jenkins
American Director
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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Steven Soderbergh
American Director
All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.
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Willa Fitzgerald
American Actress
I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
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Sara Sampaio
Portuguese Model
I try to cook more now so I can control my diet and what I ingest.
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Adam Rapp
American Novelist
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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Alison Brie
American Actress
Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.
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Sam Harris
American Author
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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Richard Thaler
American Economist
Everyone knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.
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Jeff Dean
American Musician
Health care - the ability of neural networks to ingest lots of data and make predictions is very well suited to this area, and potentially will have a huge societal impact.
Quote examples
Barry Jenkins
American Director
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
Quote examples
Steven Soderbergh
American Director
All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.
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Clint Eastwood
American Actor
Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.
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Willa Fitzgerald
American Actress
I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.
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Sara Sampaio
Portuguese Model
I try to cook more now so I can control my diet and what I ingest.
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