digest
/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/ verb, noun
Forms digests digesting digested
- verb (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. “to digest laws”
- verb (transitive) 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.
- verb (transitive) 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.
- verb To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- verb (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- verb (intransitive) To undergo digestion. “I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.”
- verb (biochemistry, transitive, of DNA molecules) To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
- verb (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- noun That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
- noun A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. “Comyn's Digest”
- noun 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.”
- noun (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Synonyms
arrange sort sort out compilation endure stick out stomach bear stand tolerate support brook abide suffer put up condense concentrate
Etymology
From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to 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”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair.
- verb 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.
- verb To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
- verb To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Etymology [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest.]
Etymology [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “digest”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details