DIGEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digest mean? 

• DIGEST (noun)
  The noun DIGEST has 2 senses:

1. a periodical that summarizes the news

2. something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

  Familiarity information: DIGEST used as a noun is rare.

• DIGEST (verb)
  The verb DIGEST has 8 senses:

1. convert food into absorbable substances

2. arrange and integrate in the mind

3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

4. become assimilated into the body

5. systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

6. soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

7. make more concise

8. soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

  Familiarity information: DIGEST used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A periodical that summarizes the news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("digest" is a kind of...):

periodical (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)

Derivation:

digest (make more concise)

digest (arrange and integrate in the mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

compilation; digest

Hypernyms ("digest" is a kind of...):

collection; compendium (a publication containing a variety of works)

Derivation:

digest (make more concise)

digest (arrange and integrate in the mind)

• DIGEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they digest ... he / she / it digests
Past simple: digested   
Past participle: digested   
-ing form: digesting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert food into absorbable substances

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

I cannot digest milk products

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

"Digest" entails doing...:

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Verb group:

digest (become assimilated into the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

stomach (bear to eat)

predigest (digest (food) beforehand)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs digest the vegetables

Derivation:

digester (autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested)

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

digestion (the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body)

digestive (relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrange and integrate in the mind

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

I cannot digest all this information

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

apprehend; compass; comprehend; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy (get the meaning of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue digest the movie

Derivation:

digest (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

digest (a periodical that summarizes the news)

digestion (learning and coming to understand ideas and information)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate

Context example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become assimilated into the body

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Protein digests in a few hours

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

digest (convert food into absorbable substances)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

digestive (relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the government digested the entire law into a code

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

systematise; systematize; systemise; systemize (arrange according to a system or reduce to a system)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

Verb group:

digest (soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Make more concise

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

concentrate; condense; digest

Context example:

condense the contents of a book into a summary

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "digest"):

capsule; capsulise; capsulize; encapsulate (put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume)

telescope (make smaller or shorter)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

digest (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

digest (a periodical that summarizes the news)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "digest" is one way to...):

break down; break up; decompose (separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts)

Verb group:

digest (soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

digestion (the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat)

 Context examples 

Secretin causes the pancreas, liver, and stomach to release substances that help digest food.

(ChiRhoStim, NCI Dictionary)

Calpains digest the links between the actin cytoskeleton and several focal adhesion complex proteins; talin, paxillin and focal adhesion kinase.

(Calpain-2 Cell Motility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A recessive X-linked defect of leukocyte function in which phagocytic cells ingest but fail to digest bacteria, resulting in recurring bacterial infections with granuloma formation.

(Chronic Granulomatous Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Scar tissue cannot do what healthy liver tissue does - make protein, help fight infections, clean the blood, help digest food and store energy.

(Cirrhosis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The colon removes water and some nutrients and electrolytes from partially digested food.

(Colon, NCI Dictionary)

Osteoblasts synthesize bone matrix and form new bone while osteoclasts digest mineral matrix and old bone.

(Bone Remodeling, NCI Thesaurus)

The organs and ducts that make and store bile (a fluid made by the liver that helps digest fat), and release it into the small intestine.

(Biliary system, NCI Dictionary)

Some bacteria help to digest food, destroy disease-causing cells, and give the body needed vitamins.

(Bacterial Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

In 2000, Tipnis et al. discovered ACE 2 a second carboxypeptidase that digests angiotensin.

(Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Bile is excreted into the small intestine, where it helps digest fat.

(Bile, NCI Dictionary)