Digest

1. (v) (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. 2. (v) (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. 3. (v) (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. 4. (v) (intransitive) To undergo digestion. 5. (n) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles. 6. (n) Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. 7. (n) (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message. 8. (v) (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. 9. (v) To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. 10. (v) (biochemistry, transitive, of DNA molecules) To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases. 11. (v) (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. 12. (v) (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. 13. (v) (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature. 14. (v) (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief). 15. (n) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.