digest
IPA: daɪdʒˈɛst
noun
- 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.
- (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
verb
- (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
- (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
- (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
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Examples of "digest" in Sentences
- Enzymes assist in the digestion of foods.
- Poop is the result of the digestive track.
- It helps the enzymatic digestion of proteins.
- Rather, it is the result of the digestive system.
- It is difficult for the human body to digest dietary fats.
- Dietary fats are digested in the intestine and carried to the liver.
- He has a digestive problem because his digestive system is corruptive.
- Additionally, radish is the very vegetable which help digest in stomach.
- In order to digest hard leaves, animals developed a multi chambered stomach.
- If you eat meals late in the evening, it will take longer for your body to digest food.
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