digest
part of speech
verb (digest, digests, digested, digesting); noun (a digest — a short summary, said «DY-jest»)
meaning for a pupil
1) To digest food means to break it down in the stomach and intestines so the body can use it for energy and growth. tree →
2) To digest information means to think about it carefully until you understand it. tree →
3) A digest is a short collection or summary of news or writing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the digestive system is a key topic: mouth (chewing, saliva), oesophagus, stomach (acid), small intestine (food goes into the blood), large intestine (water taken back), and out as poo. Fibre helps digestion. Some foods are hard to digest. At school, teachers give pupils time to digest new ideas. Phrases: digest food, hard to digest, digestive system, digest the news.
examples
- The stomach helps us digest our food. tree →
- Chew well to help your body digest. tree →
- Snakes can take days to digest a big meal. tree →
- It took me a while to digest the news. tree →
- Fibre in fruit and vegetables helps digestion. tree →
- A cow has four parts to its stomach to digest grass. tree →
- The magazine has a digest of the week's news. tree →
- Crimthann absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as rapidly. tree →
note
Verb stress on the second syllable: «die-JEST»; noun on the first: «DY-jest». Noun «digestion»; adjective «digestive» (also a UK biscuit). Myth: swallowed chewing gum does not stay in your stomach for seven years, but do not swallow it.
In the corpora
- Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a chewed tomato plant makes its leaves harder to digest.
- Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs.
- Most adult cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well, so cats should drink fresh water, not cow's milk.
- Fibre is the part of plants the body can't digest, and it helps food move through the gut and keeps you full.
- Most digested food passes into the blood in the small intestine.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «digest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.