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单词 digester
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digestern.

/dɪˈdʒɛstə//dʌɪˈdʒɛstə/
Forms: Also 1600s -or.
Etymology: < digest v. + -er suffix1.
He who or that which digests.
1. That which distributes, disperses, or dissipates (humours). Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing
resolutivea1400
resolver?a1450
digester1578
discussive1583
discutient1585
discusser1617
resolvent1676
incider1722
incisive1726
incident1753
discutant1817
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiii. 109 All the Scabiouses are..digesters and diuiders of grosse humors.
2. One who analyses, arranges, and reduces to order, a mass of information; the maker of a digest.
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society > communication > information > [noun] > one who arranges information
digester1677
1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. ii. i. viii. 66 Varro a learned Digester of Antiquities.
1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 7) 432 I would recommend to..the new Digester of our Laws, not to be too subtle in the process.
1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. iv. §44. 130 To come into direct contact with facts, instead of receiving them at second hand through digesters and generalizers.
1885 G. W. Hemming in Law Q. Rev. 297 The Digester should..revise every catch-word in the Reports.
3.
a. That which digests or promotes the digestion of food; a digestive agent or organ.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > digestibility > substance promoting digestion
digestivec1386
digester1609
digestif1908
1609 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet i. xxxi. f. 46 Galingale..is a digester of meate.
a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 174 Rue is..a great Digester and Restorer of Appetite.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Viscum The Stomachs of these Birds are too powerful Digesters to suffer any Seeds to pass intire through the Intestines.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §97 Its great virtues as a digester and deobstruent.
b. A person or animal that digests its food (well or ill); figurative one who digests mentally.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] > one who takes note
marker1531
observer1555
digester1713
observist1827
spotter1913
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > one who digests
digester1713
1713 Guardian 20 May 1/1 The generality of Readers..must..be allowed to be notable Digesters.
1713 Guardian 24 Aug. 1/2 As great Princes keep their Taster, so I perceive you keep your Digester.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xxii. 293 People that are bilious, and fat rather than lean; great Eaters and ill Digesters.
4.
a. A strong close vessel in which bones or other substances may be subjected to the action of water or other liquid at a temperature and pressure above those of the boiling point, so as to be dissolved.In its original form called from its inventor, Papin's digester.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > others
aludela1400
sublimatoryc1405
rotumbea1475
capel1527
firepot1595
digestory1676
digester1681
capsule1727
pneumatic trough1800
receiver1808
collector1860
cartridge1920
1681 D. Papin (title) A New Digester, or Engine for softening Bones.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 278 I went..to a Supper,..which was all dressed (both fish & flesh) in Monsieur Papins Digestorie; by which the hardest bones of Biefe itselfe, & Mutton, were..made as soft as Cheeze.
1708 J. Keill Acct. Animal Secretion i. 122 The Jelly extorted by Papin's Digester out of dry and solid Bones.
1784 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 415 A cast-iron vessel, which I could close at one end, like a digester.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) II. 412 A close vessel, which is called Papin's digester; in which it is said water may be made red hot.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 10/2 The vessel which contained the explosive used at the Admiralty Offices..was what is known as a digester or stock pot, such as is used in kitchens.
b. An apparatus in which the carcasses of beasts unfit for food are by the action of heat dissolved into their proximate elements, tallow, gelatine, earthy phosphates, etc.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 702/2.
1892 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/5 Animals and carcases should be removed in..enclosed vans, the animals at once slaughtered..and the carcases destroyed in a digester.
c. An apparatus whereby substances are dissolved by chemical action instead of by heat and pressure.
d. Paper-making. An apparatus in which wood, grass, etc., are turned into pulp by the action of hot water, chemicals, etc.
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1898 Sci. Amer. 78 185/3 The digester is filled to the top with chips..and the acid is then piped in.
1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 206/2 These pieces [of wood]..are fed into a ‘digester’, which in some cases is large enough to produce fifteen tons of pulp at one operation.
1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 19 The chips are then blown up to the top of the wood-boiling house into large silos, from which the digesters are filled.
1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper i. 13 The principle was to boil the wood with soda in digesters.

Draft additions October 2021

A tank or apparatus in which organic waste material, typically sewage, is decomposed by microbial action; a biodigester or anaerobic digester.
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1912 Public Health Jrnl. 3 115/2 Many of the tanks constructed in the last five years have been more correctly called sedimentation tanks, sludge removers, rather than sludge digesters.
1967 Jrnl. Water Pollution Control Federation 39 368/2 In digester operation it is important to..mix the digester contents well and preferably continuously.
2021 N.Z. Herald 12 Apr. Community scale biogas digesters have long existed in Denmark, UK, Germany for processing a range of organic wastes into bio-methane gas and the effluent by-product used for soil conditioning.
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