digestとは

語源 1

From Middle English digesten, from Latin digestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion.

発音

• enPR: dī-jĕstʹ, də-jĕstʹ, IPA^(key): /daɪˈdʒɛst/, /dəˈdʒɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

動詞

digest (三人称単数 現在形 digests, 現在分詞 digesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 digested)

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

   to digest laws

   • Blair

     joining them together and digesting them into order

   • Shakespeare

     We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.

2. (transitive) 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.
3. (transitive) 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.
   • Sir H. Sidney

     Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

   • Shakespeare

     How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?

   • Book of Common Prayer

     Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
   • Coleridge

     I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

5. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.

   I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.

7. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
   • Jeremy Taylor

     well-digested fruits

10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger または grief)

同意語

• (distribute または arrange methodically): arrange, sort, sort out
• (separate food in the alimentary canal):
• (think over かつ arrange methodically in the mind): sort out
• (化学, soften by heat かつ moisture):
• (undergo digestion):

語源 2

From Latin digesta, neuter plural of digestus, past participle of digero (“separate”)

発音

• enPR: dīʹjĕst, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

名詞

digest (複数形 digests)

1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

   Comyn's Digest

   the United States Digest

3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

   Reader's Digest is published monthly.

   The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.

4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

使用する際の注意点

• (compilation of statutes または decisions analytically arranged): The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian, but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics.

アナグラム

• gisted, tidges