digest

Plural: digests

Noun

• a periodical that summarizes the news
• something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: digested, digesting, digests

• To break down food for absorption; to process information.
• convert food into absorbable substances
  • "I cannot digest milk products"
• arrange and integrate in the mind
  • "I cannot digest all this information"
• put up with something or somebody unpleasant
• become assimilated into the body
  • "Protein digests in a few hours"
• systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
  • "the government digested the entire law into a code"
• soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
• make more concise
• soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
• 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 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)

Examples

• Comyn's Digest
• I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
• It took a moment to DIGEST the opponent’s complex move and formulate a counter-strategy.
• Reader's Digest is published monthly.
• the United States Digest
• The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
• to digest laws

Synonyms

abide, bear, brook, compilation, concentrate, condense, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate, arrange, sort, sort out

Anagrams of digest