Heartburn and Reflux For Dummies. Digestion is the process of changing food into a form that the body can absorb and use as energy or as the raw materials to repair and build new tissue. Digesting food is a two-part process thatâs half mechanical, half chemical. Mechanical digestion begins in your mouth as your teeth tear and grind food into [â¦]
apparent (comparative more apparent, superlative most apparent) 1  Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, [â¦] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And oâer the dark her silver mantle threw.
Used after a form of the verb be, however, apparent can mean either seeming (as in His virtues are only apparent) or obvious (as in The effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields).