intransitive verb. To convert (food) into simpler chemical compounds that can be absorbed and assimilated by an organism, as by chemical and muscular action in the digestive tract.

intransitive verb. To think over so as to understand; absorb or assimilate.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To organize into a systematic arrangement, usually by summarizing or classifying.

intransitive verb. To condense or abridge (a written work).

intransitive verb. To soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To become assimilated into the body.

intransitive verb. To assimilate food substances.

intransitive verb. To undergo exposure to heat, liquids, or chemical agents.

noun. A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.

noun. A systematic arrangement of abstracts from court decisions designed to simplify the locating of relevant case law.

noun. A periodical containing literary abridgments or other condensed works.

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noun. A collection, compilation, abridgment, or summary of literary, legal, scientific, or historical matter, arranged in some convenient order.

noun. Specifically [capitalized] The collection or body of Roman laws prepared by order of the emperor Justinian. See pandect.

noun. In law, a compilation of concise statements, summaries, or analyses of statutes or of reported cases, or of both, arranged in alphabetical order of subjects, usually with analytic subdivisions, so as to form a systematic compend of the authorities represented in the collection.

noun. Synonyms Compendium, Compend, etc. See abridgment.

To divide; separate.

To analyze and distribute into suitable classes, or under proper heads or titles, usually with condensation, so as to state results in concise form; arrange in convenient order; dispose methodically.

To draw up in order; arrange.

To arrange methodically in the mind; think out with due arrangement of parts; ponder; settle in one's mind: as, to digest a plan or scheme.

To prepare for assimilation, as food, by the physiological process of digestion: applied also by extension to the action of certain insectivorous plants.

Hence —

To assimilate mentally; obtain mental nourishment or improvement from by thorough comprehension: as, to digest a book or a discourse.

To bear with patience or with an effort; brook; receive without resentment; put up with; endure: as, to digest an insult.

In chem., to soften and prepare by heat; expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for operations.

To dissolve and prepare for manure, as plants and other substances.

10. In medicine, to dispose to suppurate, as an ulcer or a wound.—

To mature; ripen.

Synonyms

To classify, codify, systematize, methodize, reduce to order.

To study out, meditate, ponder, work upon.

To carry on the physiological process of digestion.

To undergo digestion, as food.

To be prepared by heat.

To suppurate; generate pus, as an ulcer or a wound.

To dissolve and be prepared for manure, as substances in compost.

intransitive verb. To undergo digestion.

intransitive verb. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

noun. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

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

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

transitive verb. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

transitive verb. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

transitive verb. To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

transitive verb. To ripen; to mature.

transitive verb. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

"This digest is then matched against advertiser-created categories e.g. Sport, Travel and if a match is found, only the name of the category, the random number and a timestamp are stored."