"The definition of ingest is such that you take something in and absorb it."
Right and wrong.
In complex animals, ingest means to eat/swallow (and after Digestion if possible absorb) where as in a single-celled organism it just means absorb.
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism.
Ingesting means the act of ingestion.
Funny thing is you would find it very hard to find the word ingest,ingested and ingesting in most English dictionaries and I'm guessing it's because...
1) They'er total crap. (I have three and can't find any reference.)
2) The word has gone out of fashion in "Common/Basic English" (it will be in the Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volumes and counting) along millions of other words that are no longer used)
Digest means to convert into assimilable form.
Digesting/Digestion means the process of Digest.
Indigestible means unable to Digest
Indigestion means a pain caused by difficulty in digestion.
"You'd think the English would have a better grasp of their language, eh?"
We do it's just that Enlish is a dynamic language where one word can have many different meanings, or many words are interchangeable (Digesting/Digestion), or the meaning of words change and to make matters worse there are new words being added every day.
Oh and there are many versions of English. One word in the UK can have a totally diferent interpretation or spelling in the US or the rest of the world (a few swear words come to mind.)
Just be thankful that we still don't use the old fashioned 300 Year old spelling's where in the middle of some words we would write a 'f' instead of a 's'.
"aye us brits are great at f**king up our own language"
That's because there is the French (Normans 1066 AD) influence. If you haven't noticed all words that have any thing to the Law and Government are French in origin. The rest are mostly Germanic.
This leads us to English spelling (post Christianity) as the only people who could read and write when English was starting to become a written language where of course monks (not all could read. Most where the equivalent of a photo copier) and they wrote down (a latin version) how the words sounded to them. ( Which would explain why my spellings crap )
"dawlane: Your signature is huge, please fix it. Seriously, that really is huge for a signature, and I'm running at 1680x1050 here."
Fixed.
Right and wrong.
In complex animals, ingest means to eat/swallow (and after Digestion if possible absorb) where as in a single-celled organism it just means absorb.
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism.
Ingesting means the act of ingestion.
Funny thing is you would find it very hard to find the word ingest,ingested and ingesting in most English dictionaries and I'm guessing it's because...
1) They'er total crap. (I have three and can't find any reference.)
2) The word has gone out of fashion in "Common/Basic English" (it will be in the Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volumes and counting) along millions of other words that are no longer used)
Digest means to convert into assimilable form.
Digesting/Digestion means the process of Digest.
Indigestible means unable to Digest
Indigestion means a pain caused by difficulty in digestion.
"You'd think the English would have a better grasp of their language, eh?"
We do it's just that Enlish is a dynamic language where one word can have many different meanings, or many words are interchangeable (Digesting/Digestion), or the meaning of words change and to make matters worse there are new words being added every day.
Oh and there are many versions of English. One word in the UK can have a totally diferent interpretation or spelling in the US or the rest of the world (a few swear words come to mind.)
Just be thankful that we still don't use the old fashioned 300 Year old spelling's where in the middle of some words we would write a 'f' instead of a 's'.
"aye us brits are great at f**king up our own language"
That's because there is the French (Normans 1066 AD) influence. If you haven't noticed all words that have any thing to the Law and Government are French in origin. The rest are mostly Germanic.
This leads us to English spelling (post Christianity) as the only people who could read and write when English was starting to become a written language where of course monks (not all could read. Most where the equivalent of a photo copier) and they wrote down (a latin version) how the words sounded to them. ( Which would explain why my spellings crap )
"dawlane: Your signature is huge, please fix it. Seriously, that really is huge for a signature, and I'm running at 1680x1050 here."
Fixed.