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| digest | |
| 1. v. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. |  |
| to digest laws | |
| 2. v. 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 blo | |
| 3. v. 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. v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion. | |
| I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest. | |
| 7. v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. | |
| 8. v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature. | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief) | |
| 11. n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles | |
| 12. n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. | |
| Comyn's Digest | |
| the United States Digest | |
| 13. n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. | |
| Reader's Digest is published monthly. | |
| The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week. | |
| 14. n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message. | |
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