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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024di•gest•i•ble (di jes′tə bəl, dī-),USA pronunciation adj. - Physiologycapable of being digested;
readily digested.
- Latin dīgest(us) (see digest) + -ibilis -ible
- Late Latin dīgestibilis
- Middle English 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: digestible /dɪˈdʒɛstəbəl daɪ-/ adj - capable of being digested or easy to digest
diˌgestiˈbility, diˈgestibleness n di•gest /v. dɪˈdʒɛst, daɪ-; n. ˈdaɪdʒɛst/USA pronunciation v. - Physiology(of food) to (cause to) change or be changed into a form that the body can use: [no object]Some foods don't digest easily.[~ + object]The baby had a hard time digesting such rich food.
- [ ~ + obj] to obtain ideas or meaning from;
think over;
take into the mind:I tried to digest this article on nuclear energy.
n. [countable] - a collection of writing or of scientific matter, esp. when it is classified or condensed;
summary:a thirty-page digest of the news.
di•gest•i•ble, adj.: The food was easily digestible.See -gest-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024di•gest (v. di jest′, dī-;n. dī′jest),USA pronunciation v.t. - Physiologyto convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- Physiologyto promote the digestion of (food).
- to obtain information, ideas, or principles from;
assimilate mentally:to digest a pamphlet on nuclear waste. - to arrange methodically in the mind;
think over:to digest a plan. - to bear with patience;
endure. - to arrange in convenient or methodical order;
reduce to a system;
classify. - to condense, abridge, or summarize.
- Chemistryto soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like.
v.i. - Physiologyto digest food.
- Physiologyto undergo digestion, as food.
n. - a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, esp. when classified or condensed.
- Law
- a systematic abstract of some body of law.
- the Digest, a collection in fifty books of excerpts, esp. from the writings of the Classical Roman jurists, compiled by order of Justinian in the 6th century a.d.;
the Pandects.
- Biochemistrythe product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material.
- Late Latin dīgesta (plural), Latin: collection of writings, neuter plural of dīgestus, as above
- Latin dīgestus separated, dissolved (past participle of dīgerere), equivalent. to dī- di-2 + ges- carry, bear (base of gerere) + -tus past participle suffix; (noun, nominal) Middle English: collection of laws
- (verb, verbal) Middle English digesten 1350–1400
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged understand; study, ponder.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged systematize, codify.
- 11.See corresponding entry in Unabridged epitome, abridgment. See summary.
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