digests

verb

  1. 1

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

    to digest laws
  2. 2

    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. 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.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    To undergo digestion.

    I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
  7. 7

    To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

  8. 8

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

  9. 9

    To ripen; to mature.

  10. 10

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

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

    Comyn's Digest
  3. 3

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

    Reader's Digest is published monthly.
  4. 4

    The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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