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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