digest

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English

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dī-jĕstʹ, də-jĕstʹ, IPA^(key): /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/, /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Verb

digest (third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
6. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
7. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
8. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
9. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
10. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
11. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

Synonyms

• (distribute or arrange methodically): arrange, sort, sort out
• (separate food in the alimentary canal):
• (think over and arrange methodically in the mind): sort out
• (chemistry, soften by heat and moisture):
• (undergo digestion):

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dīʹjĕst, dīʹjəst, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/, /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

digest (plural digests)

1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Usage notes

• (compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged): The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian, but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics.

Translations

Anagrams

• gisted, tidges

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English digest

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒɛst/

Noun

digest m (plural digests)

1. digest (collection of articles)

Further reading

• “digest”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīgestus.

Adjective

digest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular digeste)

1. digested

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English digest.

Noun

digest n (plural digesturi)

1. digest (publication)

Declension