Used in a Sentence

ingested

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ingested.

Editorial note

The water is returned to the environment a few hours after it's ingested.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

taken into the stomach

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ingested gathered in one view.

adjective

taken into the stomach

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ingested.

adjective

taken into the stomach

Example sentences

1

The water is returned to the environment a few hours after it's ingested.

2

Content is ingested to a pipeline and a key is returned.

3

The latency of the logs being ingested into a DB would prevent me from using the DB.

4

> The water is returned to the environment a few hours after it's ingested.

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Some people consider only energy expenditure, or how many calories ingested are turned into energy for useful work in the body.

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It is very likely that would result in a very bad day if it were ingested by the turbine powering the helicopter.

7

It could just be 'its bad fat' that was ingested by a poor diet.

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Your keys were immediately ingested and compromised a few seconds after you pushed, and likely even before you realized what you've done.

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So what happens when these spiders start reinforcing their exoskeletons with the ingested nanomaterial?

10

But I had also ingested another substance at that point, and that's a story for another time.

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Millions of years ago, creatures that you and I came from, through N levels of evolution, ingested saturated fat.

12

Some of the fatty acids necessary for these functions are not even produced by the human body [2] and therefore must be ingested.

Quote examples

1

So calories in can be calories ingested, or calories "processed" (here loosely defined as anything that doesn't pass straight through to stool or urine).

2

I think that"100% safe" is an exaggeration intended to emphasize that the risk is manageable and it would be more polite to simply state that many substances can be ingested with minimal risk.

3

Going by the dictionary definition of drug: "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body" both caffeine and cannabis fit the bill.

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Add to this that the only piece of this that we can accurately measure across populations is gross calories ingested, and there is a lot of room for reasonable people to disagree on a "healthy intake".

Proper noun examples

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Ingested alcohol is less commonly used as a medical aid, but most every hospital uses alcohol on a daily basis.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ingested in a sentence?

The water is returned to the environment a few hours after it's ingested.

What does ingested mean?

taken into the stomach

What part of speech is ingested?

ingested is commonly used as adjective.