Digest

[daɪ'dʒest;dɪ-] or [daɪ'dʒɛst]

Definition

(noun.) a periodical that summarizes the news.

(verb.) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture .

(verb.) make more concise; 'condense the contents of a book into a summary'.

(verb.) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture.

(verb.) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; 'the government digested the entire law into a code'.

(verb.) become assimilated into the body; 'Protein digests in a few hours'.

(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'.

(verb.) convert food into absorbable substances; 'I cannot digest milk products'.

Editor: Val--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

(v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

(v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

(v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

(v. t.) To ripen; to mature.

(v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

(v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

(v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

(v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

(v. t.) 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.

Typist: Ronald

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Pandect.[2]. Code, system.[3]. Abridgment, abstract, compend, compendium, epitome, summary, synopsis, conspectus, breviary, brief, sum and substance.

v. a. [1]. Methodize, systematize, arrange, codify, classify, dispose, reduce to order.[2]. Concoct, convert into chyme.[3]. Study, ponder, consider, contemplate, reflect upon, think on, meditate upon, con over, revolve in the mind.[4]. (Chem.) Soften by a gentle heat, macerate, steep, soak.

Checker: Wendy

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Sort, arrange, dispose, order, classify, study, ponder, consider, prepare,assimilate, incorporate, convert, methodise, tabulate

ANT:Displace, confound, complicate, derange, disorder, discompose, eject, refuse,reject, disturb

Typed by Ewing

Definition

n. a body of laws collected and arranged esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.

v.t. to dissolve food in the stomach: to soften by heat and moisture: to distribute and arrange: to prepare or classify in the mind: to think over.—v.i. to be dissolved in the stomach: to be softened by heat and moisture.—adv. Digest′edly.—n. Digest′er one who digests: a close vessel in which by heat and pressure strong extracts are made from animal and vegetable substances.—n. Digestibil′ity.—adj. Digest′ible that may be digested.—n. Diges′tion the dissolving of the food in the stomach: orderly arrangement: exposing to slow heat &c.—adj. Digest′ive pertaining to digestion: promoting digestion.—adv. Digest′ively.

Edited by Alexander