English digestion definition
Etymology
From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)
- The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 159:As for Grierson, he poured liquor into himself as if it were so much soothing syrup, demonstrating that a good digestion is the highest form of good conscience.
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3: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.
- 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.
- (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.
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Translations
process in gastrointestinal tract
- Afrikaans: spysvertering, vertering
- Albanian: tretje (sq) f
- Arabic: هَضْم m (haḍm)
- Egyptian Arabic: هضم m (haḍm)
- Armenian: մարսողություն (hy) (marsołutʿyun)
- Azerbaijani: həzm (az), mənimsəmə
- Belarusian: стравава́нне n (stravavánnje)
- Bengali: পরিপাক (bn) (pôripak)
- Bulgarian: храносми́лане (bg) n (hranosmílane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消化 (zh) (xiāohuà)
- Czech: trávení (cs) n
- Danish: fordøjelse (da) c
- Dutch: spijsvertering (nl) f, vertering (nl) f
- Esperanto: digesto
- Estonian: seedimine
- Faroese: sodning f
- Finnish: ruoansulatus (fi), ruuansulatus
- French: digestion (fr) f
- Galician: dixestión f
- Georgian: მონელება (moneleba)
- German: Verdauung (de) f
- Greek: πέψη (el) f (pépsi), χώνεψη (el) f (chónepsi)
- Ancient: πέψις f (pépsis)
- Hebrew: עיכול \ עִכּוּל m (ikúl)
- Hindi: पाचन (hi) m (pācan), हज़म m (hazam), हाज़मा m (hāzmā)
- Hungarian: emésztés (hu)
- Icelandic: melting (is) f
- Indonesian: pencernaan (id)
- Irish: díleá m
- Italian: digestione (it) f
- Japanese: 消化 (ja) (しょうか, shōka)
- Kazakh: асқорыту (asqorytu), қорыту (qorytu)
- Khmer: ការរំលាយអាហារ (kaa rumliəy ʼaahaa), ជីរណា (ciirĕəʼnaa)
- Korean: 소화(消化) (ko) (sohwa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: heriskirin f, heris f, herisîn (ku), hezm (ku)
- Kyrgyz: тамак сиңирүү (tamaq siŋirüü), сиңирүү (ky) (siŋirüü)
- Lao: ການຍ່ອຽອາຫານ (kān nyǭi ʼā hān)
- Latin: digestio f
- Latvian: gremošana f
- Lithuanian: virškinimas m
- Macedonian: варење n (varenje), дигестија f (digestija)
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- Malay: pencernaan
- Malayalam: ദഹനം (ml) (dahanaṃ)
- Maori: whakangawheretanga
- Mirandese: digeston
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хоолны шингэц (hoolnï shingets)
- Nahuatl: tlatemohuiliztli
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fordøyelse m
- Nynorsk: fordøying f, melting f, matmelting f
- Old English: melting f
- Pashto: هضم (ps) m (hazᶕm), هاضمه f (hāzemá), هضمېدنه f (hazmedǝ́na)
- Persian: هضم (fa) (hazm), گوارش (fa) (govâreš)
- Polish: trawienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: digestão (pt) f
- Romanian: digestie (ro) f
- Russian: пищеваре́ние (ru) n (piščevarénije), переварива́ние (ru) n (perevarivánije)
- Rusyn: травлїня n (travljinja), діґесція f (digescija)
- Sanskrit: जीर्ण (sa) n (jīrṇa), पाचन (sa) n (pācana)
- Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: варење n
- Roman: varenje (sh) n
- Slovak: trávenie n
- Slovene: prebava (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: póžywanje n
- Upper Sorbian: požiwanje n
- Spanish: digestión (es) f
- Swedish: matspjälkning (sv) c, matsmältning (sv) c
- Tajik: ҳазм (hazm)
- Telugu: జీర్ణము (te) (jīrṇamu)
- Thai: การย่อยอาหาร
- Turkish: sindirim (tr)
- Turkmen: siňdiriş
- Ukrainian: тра́влення n (trávlennja)
- Urdu: ہضم m (hazam), ہاضمہ m (hāzmā)
- Uzbek: hazm (uz)
- Vietnamese: hệ tiêu hóa, sự tiêu hóa (vi)
- Volapük: dicet (vo), dicetam
- Welsh: traul f
- West Frisian: spiisfertarring, fertarring
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ability to use this process
- Bulgarian: храносмилане (bg) n (hranosmilane)
- Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh m
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processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
assimilation and understanding of ideas
Anagrams
French digestion definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dīgestiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
digestion f (plural digestions)
- digestion
Further reading
Old French digestion definition
Alternative forms
Noun
digestion f (oblique plural digestions, nominative singular digestion, nominative plural digestions)
- digestion
Piedmontese digestion definition
Pronunciation
Noun
digestion f
- digestion