Word Meanings - DIGEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To separate 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. To think over and arrange methodically

Additional info about word: DIGEST

To separate 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. 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. Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy Shak. 4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. Grant that we may in such wise hear them , read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer. 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge. (more info) 1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIGEST)

• Abridgment
• Abstract
• abbreviation
• contraction
• summary
• synopsis
• epitome
• compendium
• analysis
• outline
• digest
• Codify
• Summarize
• incorporate
• embody
• condense
• Summary
• Analysis
• tabulation
• abridgment
• resume
• abstract

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIGEST)

• Displace
• confound
• complicate
• derange
• disorder
• discompose
• eject
• refuse
• reject
• disturb

Related words: (words related to DIGEST)

• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• DIGESTIBLE
  Capable of being digested.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• EPITOME
  1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. 2. A compact or condensed
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• COMPENDIUM
  A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts. Syn.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• SUMMARIZE
  To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.
• ABBREVIATION
  One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. (more info) 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• ABRIDGMENT
  1. The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses. 2. An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient
• CONDENSER
  An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
• INCORPORATED
  United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• INDIGEST
  Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.
• INDIGESTIBLE
  1. Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption. 2. Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile. T. Warton. -- In`di*gest"i*ble*ness,
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• DISINCORPORATE
  1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.