meaning of digests
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 
15.  something that is compiled as into a single book or file
						 
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