meaning of digest

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.
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 appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
6. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
7. To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
8. To ripen; to mature.
9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
10. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
11. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
12. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
13. 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, Comyns Digest; the United States Digest.
14. digest A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to a newsgroup or mailing list. A digest is prepared by a moderator who selects articles from the group or list, formats them and adds a contents list. The digest is then either mailed to an alternative mailing list or posted to an alternative newsgroup. Some news readers and electronic mail programs provide commands to "undigestify" a digest, i. e. to split it up into individual articles which may then be read and saved or discarded separately. Digex Digital Express Group, Inc. DigiCash A company, started in April 1990, which aims to develop and license products to support electronic payment methods including chip card, software only, and hybrid. Ecash is their trial form of software-only electronic money. Home http://www. digicash. com/home. html.
15. something that is compiled as into a single book or file

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