Sekirov Dictionary

digest

/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/

verb 11
/ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/ noun 4
forms 5

verb11

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.
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To undergo digestion.
- I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
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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.
- Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. — 1566
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To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works. — 1834
To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- to digest laws
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
(no longer used) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(no longer used) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
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(no longer used) To ripen; to mature.
- well-digested fruits — 1662
(no longer used) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

digest

/ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/

noun4

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
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A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- Comyn's Digest
- the United States Digest
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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.
- The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
The result of applying a hash function to a message.

forms

digested · digesting · digesteth · digests · digestest

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