ingest
IPA: ɪndʒˈɛst
noun
- The process of importing data or other material into a system.
verb
- (transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
- (aviation, transitive, by extension, of a jet engine) To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.
- (transitive) To bring or import into a system.
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Examples of "ingest" in Sentences
- Tearing apart dead animals for the spawn to ingest is a popular tradition during the holidays.
- (i.e., from "ingest" to "checksum"), both for increased control of processes as well as for throughput.
- When tumor cells "ingest" the nanoparticles through the cell membrane, the particles release the inhibitor.
- These robots, written in Ruby perform the sub-processes that make up SDR 2.0 modules such as ingest and retrieval.
- It may be possible that you are now so sensitive to the energy of suffering that you can literally no longer "ingest" it.
- Mr. Wilkin said a search engine will be added to the project's home page soon, and that members are quickly working to "ingest" their digital books into the shared library.
- Let me try to put this as delicately as I can out of respect to my female readers ... but some women have been known to willingly "ingest" a certain dubious "body fluid" made by men, during moments of
- 'by truely living organisms and are either then ingested (much as a paramecium will' ingest 'strings of free-floating DNA) and by default should be considered to be' information data packets 'that have come to exist because they have evolutionary advantage to the organisms which are able to use the nucleic acid's data.
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