Search Result for "digest":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a periodical that summarizes the news;
2. something that is compiled (as into a single book or file);
[syn: compilation, digest]
VERB (8)
1. convert food into absorbable substances;
- Example: "I cannot digest milk products"
2. arrange and integrate in the mind;
- Example: "I cannot digest all this information"
3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
- Example: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"
- Example: "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"
- Example: "he learned to tolerate the heat"
- Example: "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
[syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]
4. become assimilated into the body;
- Example: "Protein digests in a few hours"
5. systematize, as by classifying and summarizing;
- Example: "the government digested the entire law into a code"
6. soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture;
7. make more concise;
- Example: "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
[syn: digest, condense, concentrate]
8. soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Digest \Di*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Digested; p. pr. & vb. n. Digesting.] [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Joining them together and digesting them into order. --Blair. [1913 Webster] We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. --Sir H. Sidney. [1913 Webster] How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [1913 Webster] Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. --Book of Common Prayer. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [1913 Webster] I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. [1913 Webster] 7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [1913 Webster] 8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Well-digested fruits. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Digest \Di*gest"\, v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Digest \Di"gest\, n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t.] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; esp. (Law), 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. [1913 Webster] A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. --Sir W. Jones. [1913 Webster] They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. --Burke. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
223 Moby Thesaurus words for "digest": Code Napoleon, Napoleonic code, abbreviate, abbreviation, abbreviature, abide, ablate, abrege, abridge, abridgement, abridgment, absorb, abstract, accept, adsorb, alphabetize, analyze, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrange, assimilate, assort, be abstracted, be with one, bear, bleed white, blot, blot up, body of law, break down, brief, brood, brood over, brook, burn up, capitulary, capsule, catalog, catch, catch on, categorize, census, chemisorb, chemosorb, chew over, chew the cud, class, classify, code, code of laws, codification, codify, compend, comprehend, compress, con over, conceive, condensation, condense, condensed version, consider, conspectus, consume, contemplate, corpus juris, cut, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, deplete, dig, digest of law, disregard, divide, down, draft, drain, drain of resources, drink, drink in, drink up, eat, eat up, endure, engross, epitome, epitomize, equity, erode, exhaust, expend, fathom, file, filter in, finish, finish off, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go, gobble, gobble up, grade, grasp, group, have, have it taped, head, ignore, imbibe, impoverish, index, infiltrate, ingest, introspect, inventory, ken, know, learn, list, master, meditate, meditate upon, metabolize, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, nutshell, order, osmose, outline, overview, pandect, penal code, percolate in, perpend, pigeonhole, place, play around with, play with, pocket, pocket the affront, ponder, ponder over, precis, predigest, range, rank, rate, read, realize, reduce, reflect, reflect over, resume, review, revolve, rubric, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, savvy, seep in, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shorten, shortened version, skeleton, sketch, slurp up, soak in, soak up, sorb, sort, speculate, spend, sponge, squander, stand, stomach, study, subdivide, suck dry, sum, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, survey, survive, swallow, swallow an insult, swallow up, swill up, syllabus, synopsis, synopsize, table, table of organization, tabulate, take, take in, take up, think over, thumbnail sketch, tolerate, topical outline, toy with, turn aside provocation, turn over, type, understand, use up, waste away, wear away, weigh
