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Digest
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- 1 That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
"By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years."
- 2 something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) wordnet
- 3 A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
"Comyn's Digest"
- 4 a periodical that summarizes the news wordnet
- 5 Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
"Reader's Digest is published monthly."
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- 6 The result of applying a hash function to a message.
- 1 To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. transitive
"to digest laws"
- 2 soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture wordnet
- 3 To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. transitive
"In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted."
- 4 make more concise wordnet
- 5 To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. transitive
"Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer."
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- 6 soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture wordnet
- 7 To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
"I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works."
- 8 systematize, as by classifying and summarizing wordnet
- 9 To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. transitive
- 10 become assimilated into the body wordnet
- 11 To undergo digestion. intransitive
"I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest."
- 12 arrange and integrate in the mind wordnet
- 13 To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases. transitive
- 14 put up with something or somebody unpleasant wordnet
- 15 To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. intransitive, obsolete
"The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins."
- 16 convert food into absorbable substances wordnet
- 17 To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. obsolete, transitive
- 18 To ripen; to mature. obsolete, transitive
"well-digested fruits"
- 19 To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief). obsolete, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.
From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).
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