ingest

What it means

1. transitiveTo take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
2. broadlytransitiveaeronauticsTo cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.

   The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

3. transitiveTo bring or import into a system.

   While this might seem like more than enough computing power for these purposes, the same machine is also used to ingest, archive and distribute TRMM data to the user community.

   2013, R. L. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, page 176

In a sentence

The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

Where it comes from

1. Latiningerō“to carry in”
2. Englishingest

From Latin ingerō (“to carry in”).