digest

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

2. 2transitive verb

   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. 3transitive verb

   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. 4transitive verb

   To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

5. 5transitive verb

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

6. 6transitive verb

   To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

7. 7transitive verb

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

8. 8transitive verb

   To ripen; to mature.

9. 9transitive verb

   To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

10. 10intransitive verb

    To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

11. 11intransitive verb

    To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

12. 12transitive verb

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

13. 13transitive verb

    A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (See Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

14. 14noun

    something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

    Synonyms

    compilation
15. 15noun

    a periodical that summarizes the news

16. 16verb

    soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

17. 17verb

    make more concise

    "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

    Synonyms

    concentratecondense
18. 18verb

    soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

19. 19verb

    systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

    "the government digested the entire law into a code"

20. 20verb

    become assimilated into the body

    "Protein digests in a few hours"

21. 21verb

    arrange and integrate in the mind

    "I cannot digest all this information"

22. 22verb

    put up with something or somebody unpleasant

    "I cannot bear his constant criticism"

    "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

    Synonyms

    abidebearbrookendurestandstomachsuffersupporttolerate
23. 23verb

    convert food into absorbable substances

    "I cannot digest milk products"