DIGEST
\da͡ɪd͡ʒˈɛst], \daɪdʒˈɛst], \d_aɪ_dʒ_ˈɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of DIGEST
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
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a periodical that summarizes the news
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arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
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soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
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soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
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systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"
By Princeton University
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convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
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a periodical that summarizes the news
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arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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 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.
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To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
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Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
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To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
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To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
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To ripen; to mature.
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To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
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To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
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To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
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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. 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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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 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.
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To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
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Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
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To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
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To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
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To ripen; to mature.
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To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
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To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
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To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
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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. 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.
By Noah Webster.
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A classification; as, a digest of laws; a classified arrangement of written or printed material; as, a literary digest.
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To arrange methodically under proper heads or titles; classify; think over and arrange in the mind; dissolve in the stomach; soften and prepare by heat.
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To be dissolved in the stomach; to be prepared by heat.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To dissolve food in the stomach: to soften by heat and moisture: to distribute and arrange: to prepare or classify in the mind: to think over.
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To be dissolved in the stomach: to be softened by heat and moisture. n. -DIGESTER.
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A body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To change in the stomach, as food; take into the physical or mental organism; assimilate.
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To analyze and classify; form into a digest.
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To tolerate; endure.
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Digester.
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A systematic arrangement; summary; compilation.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] That which is digested; that which is worked over, classified, and arranged;—a collection of Roman laws arranged under proper titles by order of the emperor Justinian;—any compilation or arrangement of literary or legal materials;—summary; abridgment.
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