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单词 predigest
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Definition of predigest in English:

predigest

verb ˌpriːdʌɪˈdʒɛstˌpriːdɪˈdʒɛst
  • 1(of an animal) treat (food) by a process similar to digestion in order to make it more digestible when subsequently eaten.

    (动物)(用类似消化过程的处理方法)使(食物)更易消化

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For another, in most venomous snakes the venom acts to subdue, and in some cases to predigest, the prey.
    • The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches.
    • In canids such as wolves or wild dogs, usually only the dominant, or alpha, male and female in a pack reproduce, but younger group members hunt with the mother and return to the den to regurgitate predigested meat into the mouths of her pups.
    • The frigate bird fishes the easy way, if you like your fish predigested.
    • Produce and grains would come largely predigested in the stomach of prey.
    • In this species, both parents provision their offspring predigested carrion from a vertebrate carcass, and the larvae beg for food from their parents.
  • 2Simplify (information) so as to make it easier to understand or absorb.

    pithy passages have been predigested for the reader and arranged under appropriate headings
    predigested news
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In building its case the administration influenced the debate by feeding the press a special diet of predigested information from anonymous entities.
    • A brand is but predigested sales information to facilitate a purchase decision.
    • The general lack of understanding of science is contributed to, in a large part, by society, a public weaned on predigested news.
    • Just pick up your newspaper, or turn on television or go on the internet, it seems to me that more and more news is designed to be predigested, as short as possible, as entertaining as possible.

Derivatives

  • predigestion

  • noun ˌpriːdɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)nˌpriːdʌɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n
    • Having nabbed its prey, the box jellyfish moves the captive to its stomach for predigestion.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their venom causes predigestion and breakdown of the cells.
      • He is thinking of farmers who breed grasses to produce food crops, and of cooking as a process of predigestion to enable us to consume otherwise inedible foods.
      • Enzyme predigestion with pepsin was performed as recommended by the manufacturer.
      • The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches.

Definition of predigest in US English:

predigest

verb
  • 1(of an animal) treat (food) by a process similar to digestion in order to make it more digestible when subsequently eaten.

    (动物)(用类似消化过程的处理方法)使(食物)更易消化

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this species, both parents provision their offspring predigested carrion from a vertebrate carcass, and the larvae beg for food from their parents.
    • For another, in most venomous snakes the venom acts to subdue, and in some cases to predigest, the prey.
    • The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches.
    • The frigate bird fishes the easy way, if you like your fish predigested.
    • Produce and grains would come largely predigested in the stomach of prey.
    • In canids such as wolves or wild dogs, usually only the dominant, or alpha, male and female in a pack reproduce, but younger group members hunt with the mother and return to the den to regurgitate predigested meat into the mouths of her pups.
  • 2Simplify (information) so as to make it easier to understand or absorb.

    pithy passages have been predigested for the reader and arranged under appropriate headings
    predigested news
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In building its case the administration influenced the debate by feeding the press a special diet of predigested information from anonymous entities.
    • The general lack of understanding of science is contributed to, in a large part, by society, a public weaned on predigested news.
    • Just pick up your newspaper, or turn on television or go on the internet, it seems to me that more and more news is designed to be predigested, as short as possible, as entertaining as possible.
    • A brand is but predigested sales information to facilitate a purchase decision.
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