'Digest' definitions:

Definition of 'digest'

From: WordNet
noun
A periodical that summarizes the news
noun
Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) [syn: compilation, digest]
verb
Convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
verb
Arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
verb
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" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]
verb
Become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"
verb
Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"
verb
Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
verb
Make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate]
verb
Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Definition of 'Digest'

From: GCIDE
  • Digest \Di*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Digested; p. pr. & vb. n. Digesting.] [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest.]
  • 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]

Definition of 'Digest'

From: GCIDE
  • Digest \Di*gest"\, v. i.
  • 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Digest'

From: GCIDE
  • Digest \Di"gest\, n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t.] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; esp. (Law), A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest. [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]

Synonyms of 'digest'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Digest'