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Meaning of digest

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

digest

Pronunciation:/daɪˈdʒɛst/

verb

Definitions

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

    Example: to digest laws

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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

digest

Pronunciation:/ˈdaɪdʒəst/

noun

Definitions

  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.

    Example: Comyn's Digest

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

    Example: Reader's Digest is published monthly.

  4. The result of applying a hash function to a message.