Chewing chewing, the food (now called a bolus) is swallowed. It enters the esophagus and via peristalsis continues on to the stomach, where the next step of digestion occurs. Premastication is sometimes performed by human parents for infants who are unable to do so for themselves. The food is masticated in the mouth of the parent into a bolus and then transferred to the infant for consumption. (Some other animals also premasticate.) Cattle and some other animals, called ruminants, chew food more than once to extract more nutrients. After the first round of chewing, this food is called cud. Chewing is
Chewing (Input Method) team renamed the project as "new" chewing (新酷音) to differentiate their work from the original. Nevertheless, the English name has remained "chewing". Chewing has been adopted by various input frameworks in Unix-like systems. On these systems, the chewing package is usually split into two parts: "libchewing", which handles the actual character selection logic; and "input framework interface" for display and preference setting. For examples: There are also chewing input method for Windows (win32-chewing) and Mac OS (SpaceChewing via OpenVanilla). Chewing (Input Method) The Chewing (酷音) input method is an intelligent Zhuyin input method. It is one of the most popular