digest

B2
Pronunciation
/daɪˈdʒɛst/
/ˈdaɪdʒəst/
Noun
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

2 Definition

A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

Example Sentences
  • Comyn's Digest
3 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Reader's Digest is published monthly.
4 Definition

The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Verb
10 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to digest laws
2 Definition

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 Definition

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 Definition

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

5 Definition

To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

6 Definition

To undergo digestion.

Example Sentences
  • I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
7 Definition

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

8 Definition

To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

9 Definition

To ripen; to mature.

10 Definition

To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)