| 单词 | digest |
| 释义 | digest —digestedly, adv. —digestedness, n. v. /di jest", duy-/; n. /duy"jest/, v.t. 1. to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system. 2. to promote the digestion of (food). 3. to obtain information, ideas, or principles from; assimilate mentally: to digest a pamphlet on nuclear waste. 4. to arrange methodically in the mind; think over: to digest a plan. 5. to bear with patience; endure. 6. to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify. 7. to condense, abridge, or summarize. 8. Chem. to soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like. v.i. 9. to digest food. 10. to undergo digestion, as food. n. 11. a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, esp. when classified or condensed. 12. Law. a. a systematic abstract of some body of law. b. 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. 13. Biochem. the product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material. [1350-1400; (v.) ME digesten < L digestus separated, dissolved (ptp. of digerere), equiv. to di- DI-2 + ges- carry, bear (base of gerere) + -tus ptp. suffix; (n.) ME: collection of laws < LL digesta (pl.), L: collection of writings, neut. pl. of DIGESTUS, as above] Syn. 4. understand; study, ponder. 6. systematize, codify. 11. epitome, abridgment. See summary. |
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