digest.
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
Meaning & usage
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
to digest laws
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.
I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
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).
Where this word comes from
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.
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.
Comyn's Digest
the United States Digest
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.
The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Where this word comes from
From Latin dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).
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