Difference between Ingest and Digest

What is the difference between Ingest and Digest?

Ingest as a verb is to take into the body, as for digestion. while Digest as a verb is to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

Ingest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take into the body, as for digestion.

Digest

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titlesA compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

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