digest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
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.
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.
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
To undergo digestion.
To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
To ripen; to mature.
To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

noun

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Pronunciation

dī-jĕstʹ də-jĕstʹ /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/ /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/ en-us-digest-verb.ogg en-us-digest.oga dīʹjĕst dīʹjəst /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/ /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/ en-us-digest-noun.ogg

Word forms

digest digests digesting digested

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.

Synonyms

Derived words

autodigest codigest digestability digestant digestate digestedly digestedness digester digestogram digestome digestor indigested maldigest maldigested misdigest nondigested predigest redigest rest-and-digest semidigested underdigested undigested undigesting

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