Swallow vs Digest - What's the difference?
swallow | digest |
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
* 2011 , Jonathan Jones, The Guardian , 21 Apr 2011:
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
* John Locke
* 2010 , "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist , 28 Oct 2010:
To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
* 1979 , VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic :
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 2011 , Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian , 22 Apr 2011:
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up .
* Alexander Pope
To retract; to recant.
* Shakespeare
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
(archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
(nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
* Blair
* Shakespeare
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.
* Sir H. Sidney
* Shakespeare
* Book of Common Prayer
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
* Coleridge
(chemistry) 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.
(medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
(obsolete) To ripen; to mature.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
A 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.
(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
In transitive terms the difference between swallow and digest
is that swallow is to accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept while digest is 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.In intransitive terms the difference between swallow and digest
is that swallow is to take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion while digest is to undergo digestion.swallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) swolowen, swolwen, . See also (l). The noun is from late (etyl) , from the verb.Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed : they remain trapped in the physical world.
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow .
- She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
- Though that story be not so readily swallowed .
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- Homer excels in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
- to swallow one's opinions
- swallowed his vows whole
- to swallow an affront or insult
Derived terms
* bitter pill to swallow * swallowable * swallow one's pride * swallow upSee also
* dysphagiaNoun
(en noun)- He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
Etymology 2
(wikipedia swallow) (etyl) swealwe, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (small bird of Hirundunudae) martlet * barn swallow (official British name)Derived terms
* one swallow does not make a summer * swallow-tailedAnagrams
* wallowsdigest
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- to digest laws
- joining them together and digesting them into order
- We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested .
- Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
- How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
- Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
- I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
- Food digests well or badly.
- well-digested fruits
Synonyms
* (distribute or arrange methodically) arrange, sort, sort out * (separate food in the alimentary canal) * (think over and arrange methodically in the mind) sort out * (sense) * (undergo digestion)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Comyn's Digest
- the United States Digest
- Reader's Digest is published monthly.
- The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.