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Definition: Ingest |
IngestVerb1. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee". 2. Take up, as of knowledge or beliefs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Ingest \In*gest"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression ingenium, past participle of ingerere to put in; prefix in- in gerere to bear.]. (references) |
Synonyms: IngestSynonyms: absorb (v), assimilate (v), consume (v), have (v), take (v), take in (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: abstain (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reception | Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ingest |
| English words defined with "ingest": RES, reticuloendothelial system ♦ snort. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ingest": carrier cell ♦ Granulomatous Disease, Chronic ♦ Haemonchus ♦ jeweler's rouge ♦ Macrophages, Alveolar, mal rouge ♦ red disease ♦ Toxic Pollutants. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ingest": ingesta. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Obviously now and then in the course of any nudity hoovering you're gonna ingest an item (Coupling; writing credit: Steven Moffat) | |
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 | A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC. |  | Slide shows unblocked anterior portion of the digestive track of X. cheopis. A blocked flea is unable to ingest its blood meal because a mass of bacteria is preventing passage of blood from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC. |
 | Surface supplied air is used in polluted water to avoid contact or ingest. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the alveoli, white blood cells called macrophages ingest the inhaled M. tuberculosis bacilli. (references) | |
In individuals with adequate gastric acid production, it is preferable to ingest calcium supplements between meals. (references) | ||
E. granulosus occurs practically worldwide, and more frequently in rural, grazing areas where dogs ingest organs from infected animals. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Swaziland | The youths died after ingesting poison but there is no conclusive evidence whether the youths committed suicide or were forced to ingest the poison by police. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ingest" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ingest" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (superlative) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ingest": to ingest. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ingest | 3 |
absorb ingest nutrients unable | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ingest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ha (eat), gëlltit (absorb, consume, engorge, engross, engulf, ingulf, ingurgitate, Raven, soak up, sup, swallow, swallow up). (various references) | |
Arabic | تناول طعاما (mouth), إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, get around, imbibe, realize, stomach, suck, swallow, take in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 咽下 (ingested). (various references) | |
Czech | přijímat potravu. (various references) | |
Danish | indsuge (absorb). (various references) | |
Dutch | induceren (to ingest). (various references) | |
French | ingérer (interfering, intermediate). (various references) | |
German | aufnehmen (absorb, assimilate, grabbing, include, record, to record). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπίνω (gulp, swallow), λαμβάνω τροφή, αναρροφώ (aspirate, siphon off, sniff up), τρώω (eat, nosh). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להכניס מזון לקיבה, להבלע. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bejuttat. (various references) | |
Italian | ingerire (swallow). (various references) | |
Korean | 섭취하십시요. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingestay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ingerir (touch), engolir (swallow). (various references) | |
Romanian | ingera. (various references) | |
Russian | глотать (clip, gorge, gulp, swallow, swigged, swigging, swigs). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzimati (take), gutati (devour, glut, gorge, gulp, guttle, swallow). (various references) | |
Spanish | ingerir (take in). (various references) | |
Swedish | inta (captivate, capture, occupy, partake of, take in), upptaga (occupy), uppta (absorb, admit, affiliate, assimilate, engage, engross, enrol, enroll, occupy, open, pick up, receive, take up), suga in smuts. (various references) | |
Thai | นำเข้าสู่ร่างกายทางปาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | yutmak (absorb, buy, choke down, drink in, eat up, elide, engorge, engulf, gulp, gulp down, pouch, swallow, take down), yemek (eat), mideye indirmek (choke down, down, gormandize). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ковтати (down, pouch, swallow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingest": ingesta, ingested, ingestible, ingesting, ingestion, ingestions, ingestive, ingests. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ingest": charmingest, cunningest, knowingest, swingingest, willingest. (additional references) | |
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"Ingest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: angest, Engesa, Iges, ighest, Ignas, Ignesti, inest, Inesti, ingaas, ingat, ingent, inges, Ingestre, inget, ingit, ings, ingst, ingyt, injest, injust, insest, intest, inuest, isges, niges, Niget. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ingest" (pronounced i'nje"st) |
| 5 | -n j e" s t | congest. |
| 4 | -j e" s t | digest, gest, jest, suggest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, abreast, acquiesced, addressed, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, crest, impressed, depressed, detest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, guessed, guest, infest, invest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: signet, tinges. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gents, inset, neist, nites, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stein, sting, tines, tinge, tings. | |
-2 letters: egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, nest, nets, nite, nits, sent, sign, sine, sing, site, snit, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins. | |
-3 letters: eng, ens, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ins, its, net, nit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: besting, easting, eatings, glisten, gunites, ignites, ingates, ingesta, ingests, jesting, nesting, nidgets, nighest, resting, seating, setting, signets, singlet, stewing, stinger, teasing, tensing, testing, tingles, twinges, vesting, westing, zesting. | |
+2 letters: angriest, antigens, astringe, beatings, beignets, beltings, cresting, dingiest, dungiest, eastings, egesting, egestion, emptings, escoting, estating, etchings, eugenist, existing, feasting, feltings, figments, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genetics, genitals, genitors, gentians, gentiles, gentries, giantess, gillnets, ginniest, gitterns, glistens, granites, guesting, heisting, histogen, igniters, ingested, ingrates, integers, jestings, kinglets, lightens, lignites, lingiest, mangiest, meetings, mingiest, mintages, misagent, mitogens, naggiest, nestling, nettings, nighties, pestling, pettings, pigments, questing, rangiest, reesting, resiting, restring, ringlets, sauteing, scenting, seatings, sedating, seething, sennight, settings, settling, sheeting, signeted, singlets, sleeting, smelting, steading, stealing, steaming, steeking, steeling, steeping, steering, steeving, stemming, stepping, sterling, stetting, stingers, stingier, strewing, stringed, stringer, sweating, sweeting, tangiest, tightens, tinglers, trigness, tziganes, unitages, vestings, vintages, weltings, westings, wettings, wingiest, winglets, wresting, yeasting, zingiest. | |
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