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Undigested

Definition: Undigested

Undigested

Adjective

1. Not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally; "an undigested mass of facts gathered at random".

2. Not digested; "undigested food".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "undigested" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Synonyms within Context: Undigested

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nonpreparation

Unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Undigested

English words defined with "undigested": Inconcoction, Indigest, Indigested, Indigestedness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "undigested": Orlistatundigested sludge. (references)
Etymologies containing "undigested": ApepsyInconcoction. (references)

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Use in Literature: Undigested

TitleAuthorQuote

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Undigested

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

While lying down or sleeping, a person with this problem may draw undigested food into the pharynx. (references)

Normal breakdown of certain undigested foods by harmless bacteria naturally present in the large intestine (colon). (references)

However, undigested lactose in the colon is fermented by bacteria, and various gases, including hydrogen, are produced. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Undigested

"Undigested" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undigested" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2964,444

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Undigested

Expression using "undigested": undigested sludge. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Undigested

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

food in stool undigested

11

food undigested

7

in oat stool undigested

2

pill undigested

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Undigested

Language Translations for "undigested"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i patrazuar (comfortable, comfy, heart-whole, imperturbable, laid back, level, peaceful, placid, smooth, unabashed, unadulterated, unblended, unconcerned, unperturbed), i pamenduar (headlong, ill-considered, ill-judged, injudicious, rash, thoughtless, unreasoned, unthinking). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عسر الهضم (indigestion). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хаотичен (chaotic, promiscuous), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, unglued, woolly), неусвоен (indigested, unimproved, unlearnt), несмлян (indigested), неасимилиран, непоследователен (contradictious, desultory, fanciful, incoherent, inconsecutive, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不消化. (various references)

   

Danish

  

råslam (green sludge, raw sludge, undigested sludge). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ruw slib (green sludge, raw sludge, undigested sludge), primair slib (green sludge, raw sludge, undigested sludge), overgebleven stuk (undigested security, unsold security, unsubscribed security), ongeplaatst effect (undigested security, unsold security, unsubscribed security). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sulamaton (indigestible). (various references)

   

French

  

non digéré. (various references)

   

German

  

unverdaut (unassimilated). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αχώνευτοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megemésztetlen. (various references)

   

Italian

  

non digerito. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neulheit (unassimilated). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igestedunday

   

Portuguese

  

não digerido (indigested), mal ordenado, mal digerido, indigesto (indigestion, stodgy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nedigerat (indigested), indigest (heavy, indigestible), brut (coarse, crude, earthy, gross, raw, rough, sheer). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

непродуманный (unreasoned), непереваренный (indigested). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nesvaren (indigested). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no digerido. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

osmält. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sindirilmemiş (undamped), hazmedilmemiş (indigested), anlaşılmamış (unexplained, unperceived, unrealized). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

anhreuliedig (unspent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Undigested

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

crudo, crudum, inperfectum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Undigested

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-i-n-s-t-u"

-2 letters: degusted, designed, destined, detinues, digested, dungiest, eugenist, ingested, nutsedge, signeted, studding, unedited.

-3 letters: deeding, deigned, dengues, denudes, destine, detinue, distend, dudeens, duendes, dunites, dusting, edgiest, endited, endites, guested, gunites, nidgets, seeding, studdie, studied, sueding, teddies, tedding.

-4 letters: degust, deigns, dengue, denied, denies, dented, denude, design, dienes, dieted, digest, dinged, dinges, dingus, dinted, dudeen.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-g-i-n-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outdesigned.

 

+2 letters: undesignated.

 

+4 letters: hundredweights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Undigested


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 64 69 67 65 73 74 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    ..    --.    .    ...    -    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#103 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0064 0069 0067 0065 0073 0074 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807075737185867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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