digest
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- a periodical that summarizes the news
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)Synonyms: compilation
Verb (8)
- 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“I cannot bear his constant criticism”“The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”“he learned to tolerate the heat”“She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”Synonyms: endurestick outstomachbearstandtoleratesupportbrookabidesufferput up
- 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“condense the contents of a book into a summary”Synonyms: condenseconcentrate
- soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. [1913 Webster]
Joining them together and digesting them into order.— Blair.[1913 Webster]
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.(Physiol.) 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.— Sir H. Sidney.[1913 Webster]
How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?— Shak.[1913 Webster]
4.To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [1913 Webster]
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.— Book of Common Prayer.[1913 Webster]
5.Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [1913 Webster]
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]
6.(Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. [1913 Webster]
7.(Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [1913 Webster]
8.To ripen; to mature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Well-digested fruits.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]
9.To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [1913 Webster]
1.To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [1913 Webster]
2.(Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [1913 Webster]
A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. --Sir W. Jones. [1913 Webster]
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to a newsgroup or mailing list. A digest is prepared by a moderator who selects articles from the group or list, formats them and adds a contents list. The digest is then either mailed to an alternative mailing list or posted to an alternative newsgroup.
Some news readers and electronic mail programs provide commands to "undigestify" a digest, i.e. to split it up into individual articles which may then be read and saved or discarded separately.