digest

noun

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

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

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

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

(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.

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

(intransitive) To undergo digestion.

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

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

(biochemistry, transitive, of DNA molecules) To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.

(medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

(medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

(obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.

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

Roots

gero-gest · Latin · carry, bear

Synonyms for digest

predigestv pandect stomachn condensev toleratev endurev absorbv assimilatev swallowv metabolizev ingestv readv

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