Intake vs Digestion - What's the difference?
intake | digestion |
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.
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.
To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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.
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 intake of air
- the new intake of students
Verb
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Anagrams
* *digestion
English
(wikipedia digestion)Noun
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}