digestとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, 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

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

     joining them together and digesting them into order

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

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

3. (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.
4. (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.
   • 1566, Henry Sidney, letter to Philip Sidney

     Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

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

   • 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], OCLC 56485293:

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

5. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk - Toleration-Norwegians

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

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

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

8. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
9. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
10. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
    • 1662, Jeremy Taylor, The Measures and Offices of Friendship

      well-digested fruits

11. (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 dīgesta, neuter plural of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“separate”).

発音

• enPR: dīʹjĕst, dīʹjəst, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/, /ˈdaɪdʒəst/
• 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 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.