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Intake vs Digestion - What's the difference?

intake | digestion |

As nouns the difference between intake and digestion

is that intake is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet while digestion is digestion.

As a verb intake

is to take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).

intake

English

Noun

  • The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
  • The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
  • The quantity taken in.
    • the intake of air
  • An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food.
  • The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
    • the new intake of students

    Verb

  • To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

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    digestion

    English

    (wikipedia digestion)

    Noun

  • The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
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  • The result of this process.
  • The ability to use this process.
  • The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
  • The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
  • (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.

    • Related terms

    * digest * digester * digestible