Ingest

Quick meaning: Ingest is a verb meaning (aviation, transitive, by extension, of a jet engine) To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.

Meaning

(aviation, transitive, by extension, of a jet engine) To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring or import into a system.
2. The process of importing data or other material into a system.
3. (transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.

Example Sentences

The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ingests
• ingesting
• ingested

Synonyms for ingest

Depending on context, synonyms include consume, discuss, partake, touch, assimilate, have.

Antonyms for ingest

Common opposites include defecate, regurgitate, refrain, abstain, desist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consume, absorb, assimilate, take, take in, have.

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