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Uncommondigest
The correct spelling is digest.
How to pronounce digest
/daɪˈdʒɛst/
verbIPA: /daɪˈdʒɛst/
Say it like: Dij-est
The correct spelling is digest. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. For example: "to digest laws"
Usage Examples
“to digest laws”
“I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.”
“Comyn's Digest”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- 2.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.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.To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- 5.To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
noun
- 1.That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- 2.A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- 3.Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- 4.The result of applying a hash function to a message.
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