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Verb

Infinitive to digest

Third person singular digests

Simple past digested

Past participle digested

Present participle digesting

to digest (third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

   to digest laws

2. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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. (transitive, chemistry) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
5. (intransitive) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

Synonyms

• (distribute or arrange methodically): arrange, sort, sort out
• (separate food in the alimentary canal):
• (think over and arrange methodically in the mind): sort out
• (chemistry, soften by heat and moisture):
• (undergo digestion):

Digest can refer to any of the following:

• A tax digest
• Digestion of food
  • Digestophobia, the fear of eating something that may upset your stomach
• Digest access authentication in HTTP, SIP and other computer network protocols
• Hash algorithm, sometimes called "message digest"
• A style or format of distribution of electronic mailing lists in which multiple messages are placed together and distributed as a single unit. It is a MIME Multipart Subtype. See MIME.
• Pandects, a digest of Roman law
• In biology, a restriction digest cleaves DNA using restriction endonucleases, or protein is digested into peptides
• Any of several periodical publications with "Digest" in the title:
  • Children's Digest
  • Consumers Digest
  • Football Digest
  • Golf Digest
  • Reader's Digest
  • Writer's Digest
• Digest size magazine format, used by some magazines (though not always consistently used by magazines with "Digest" in their names)

DIGEST can refer to:

• Digital Geographic Exchange Standard