ingest
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/
ingest verb: to take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
Verb
ingest (third-person singular simple present ingests, present participle ingesting, simple past and past participle ingested)
- To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
- To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.
- The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.
- To bring or import into a system.
- 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.2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, page 176
Noun
ingest (uncountable)
- The process of importing data or other material into a system.
- Film is a physical, photochemical medium that requires a significant transformation process for ingest into the electronic/digital domain of television.2007, Edmund A. Williams, National Association of Broadcasters Engineering Handbook
- 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.2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78
ingest meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
ingest in Tamil
- உணவு முதலியவற்றை உட்கொள்
ingest in Urdu
- پیٹ میں ڈالنا, اتارنا
ingest in Bengali
- গেলা, আহার করা, গ্রহণ করা
Examples of ingest in a sentence
- While highly poisonous to dogs, this substance is completely harmless if ingested by humans.
- Use of maximum reverse thrust at low speeds can cause the engine to surge from ingesting its own exhaust.
- The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
Synonyms of ingest
Antonyms
Forms of ingest
| third-person singular present | ingests |
|---|---|
| present participle | ingesting |
| past participle | ingested |
| past | ingested |
Origin of ingest
From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).
Words formed from ingest
Words that rhyme with ingest
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about ingest
- What does ingest mean?
- Ingest means to take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
- What is ingest in Tamil?
- Ingest in Tamil is உணவு முதலியவற்றை உட்கொள். See Ingest meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ingest?
- Ingest can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ingest?
- Ingest is pronounced /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst/.
- What is the past tense of ingest?
- The past tense of ingest is ingested.
Words near ingest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ingest (page history and authors); ingest (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ingest (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Ingest (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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