Associations to the word «Digestion»

Wiktionary

DIGESTION, noun. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
DIGESTION, noun. The result of this process.
DIGESTION, noun. The ability to use this process.
DIGESTION, noun. The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
DIGESTION, noun. The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
DIGESTION, noun. (medicine) (archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.

Dictionary definition

DIGESTION, noun. The process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat.
DIGESTION, noun. The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body.
DIGESTION, noun. Learning and coming to understand ideas and information; "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope