digest

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To distribute or arrange methodically

   To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

   • to digest laws
   • joining them together and digesting them into order
   • We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
2. 2

   To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…

   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.

3. 3

   To think over and arrange methodically in the mind

   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.

   • Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
   • How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
   • Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
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   1. 4

      To bear comfortably or patiently

      To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

      • I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
   2. 5

      To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…

      To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

   3. 6

      To undergo digestion.

      • I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
   4. 7

      To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.

   5. 8

      To suppurate

      To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

   6. 9

      To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

   7. 10

      To ripen

      To ripen; to mature.

      • well-digested fruits
   8. 11

      To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

   9. 12

      That which is digested

      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.
   10. 13

       A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged

       A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

       • Comyn's Digest
       • the United States Digest
   11. 14

       Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a…

       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.
       • The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
   12. 15

       The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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