Digestion
[daɪ'dʒestʃ(ə)n;dɪ-] or [daɪdʒɛstʃən]
Definition
(noun.) learning and coming to understand ideas and information; 'his appetite for facts was better than his digestion'.
(noun.) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body.
(noun.) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
(n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
(n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Methodizing, digesting, classifying.[2]. Conversion of food into chyme.[3]. Macerating, maceration, steeping.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect vices are evolved instead—a circumstance from which that wicked writer Dr. Jeremiah Blenn infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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Examples
- Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I injured my digestion. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A greater quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter digestion than others. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion, he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Is not the natural heat of animals thus produced, by separating in digestion the parts of food, and setting their fire at liberty? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The doctors tell me that's what has knocked my digestion out--being so infernally jealous of her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They that study much ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their digestion being not so good. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Beaumont’s discoveries in Digestion (Alexis San Martin 1825-32). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- My digestion is much impaired, and I am but a poor knife and fork at any time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The laudanum must find the process of digestion, as nearly as may be, where the laudanum found it last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Many who could tolerate slavery upon the plantations found the slave trade too much for their moral digestions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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