When your stomach breaks down food, it digests it. To digest is to process food so it can be absorbed into the body or information so the mind can absorb it.
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application;
Noun
something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
Noun
a periodical that summarizes the news
Verb
soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
Verb
make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
Verb
soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
Verb
systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"
Verb
become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"
Verb
arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
Verb
put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
Verb
convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
v. t.
Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be
reconciled to; to brook.
v. t.
To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle
heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
v. t.
To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an
ulcer or wound.
v. t.
To ripen; to mature.
v. t.
To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
v. i.
To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
v. i.
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
v. t.
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked
over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
v. t.
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.
Digest
Joining them together and digesting them into order.
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.2.
Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?4.
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.5.
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.6.
Well-digested fruits.9.
Digest
Digest
A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application;
To undergo digestion;
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Usage Examples
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
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Other Usage ExamplesUntil we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.