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digest

The correct spelling is digest.

How to pronounce digest

/daɪˈdʒɛst/
verb

IPA: /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. 1.To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
  2. 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. 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. 4.To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  5. 5.To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

noun

  1. 1.That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
  2. 2.A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
  3. 3.Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
  4. 4.The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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