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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.
Comyn's Digest
the United States Digest
  1. 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.
Translations: 
  • Spanish: resumen
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, magazine of abridged articles)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
verb (rfc-level, Verb at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
  1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
to laws
  1. (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. (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. (context, 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.
  4. (intransitive) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Translations: 
  • Spanish: digerir
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, to separate food in the alimentary canal)
  • French: digérer
    (trans-mid)
  • German: verdauung
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: digerire
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, to think over and arrange methodically in the mind)

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