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What does digest mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word digest? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
  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. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  5. (chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
  6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
  7. (medicine) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
  8. (medicine) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
  10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
Noun
  1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
  2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
  3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
  4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
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