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ingest 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/inˈjest/,
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ingested, past participle; ingested, past tense; ingesting, present participle; ingests, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it

  2. Absorb (information)
    • - he spent his days ingesting the contents of the library
  1. consume: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
  2. absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
  3. Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in the substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking. ...
  4. To take into the body, as for digestion
  5. Ingested poisons are virtually impossible to utilize in a combat situation. A poisoner could administer a potion to an unconscious creature or attempt to dupe someone into drinking or eating something poisoned. Assassins and other characters tend to use ingested poisons outside of combat.
  6. (Ingesting) Submitting works to the digital repository.
  7. (CTV) see digitize, capture. The process of loading tape into a computer.
  8. The acceptance of one or many submission information packages (SIPs) into an Open Archival Infoamtion System (OAIS). This process prepares archival information packages (AIPs) for storage, and ensures that they and their supporting descriptive information become established within the OAIS. ...
  9. to obtain food by engulfing it (as opposed to absorbing, which is what fungi do) (see PHAGOTROPHIC).
  10. In the context of metadata, the ingest process is the method by which metadata is read into a system (e.g. a database import).
  11. The process by which one or many captured digital image files are taken into a computer system for some form of digital asset management.
  12. The term used to describe the process of moving objects into Fedora.
  13. to convey food into the alimentary canal – to eat.
  14. A general term for capturing or transferring video, audio, and metadata from one media storage system to another. ...
  15. News term for intake of media from a tape or live feed.
  16. Anything taken into the stomach.
  17. to take by swallowing