Ingest vs. Digest

Ingestverb

(transitive) To take into the body, as for digestion.

Ingestverb

(transitive) To bring or import into a system.

Ingestnoun

The process of importing data or other material into a system.

Ingestverb

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

Ingestverb

To take into the body by any means, as by inhalation, injection, absorption, as well as through the mouth.

Ingestverb

serve oneself to, or consume regularly;

Ingestverb

take up mentally;

Digestverb

(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

Digestverb

(transitive) 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.

Digestverb

(transitive) 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.

Digestverb

To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

Digestverb

To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

Digestverb

(intransitive) To undergo digestion.

Digestverb

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Digestverb

To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

Digestverb

To ripen; to mature.

Digestverb

To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

Digestnoun

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

Digestnoun

A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

Digestnoun

Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

Digestnoun

(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Digestverb

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

Digestverb

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.

Digestverb

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.

Digestverb

To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Digestverb

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

Digestverb

To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

Digestverb

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

Digestverb

To ripen; to mature.

Digestverb

To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

Digestverb

To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

Digestverb

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Digestnoun

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

Digestnoun

a periodical that summarizes the news

Digestnoun

something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Digestverb

convert food into absorbable substances;

Digestverb

arrange and integrate in the mind;

Digestverb

put up with something or somebody unpleasant;

Digestverb

become assimilated into the body;

Digestverb

systematize, as by classifying and summarizing;

Digestverb

soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Digestverb

make more concise;

Digestverb

soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture