digest

/'daidʤest /

Thân thiện

A student reads a news digest on a tablet.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A compilation or summary: A digest is a shortened version or systematic collection of information, often presented as a single publication.
   • A periodical publication: A digest can be a magazine or journal that presents condensed news or articles on a specific subject.

2. Verb:

   • To break down food: In a biological context, to digest means to break down food in the stomach and intestines into substances that can be absorbed by the body.
   • To assimilate information: To digest information means to understand it fully by thinking about it carefully and systematically.
   • To condense or summarize: To digest a larger text means to make it shorter while retaining the essential points.
   • To endure or tolerate: To digest something unpleasant means to accept or bear it, even if it is difficult.
   • To decompose or soften: To digest can mean to break down or disintegrate a substance through chemical or physical processes like heat or moisture.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • I read the daily news digest to stay informed.
  • The lawyer consulted a digest of case law.

• Verb:

  • Your stomach will digest the meal in a few hours.
  • I need a moment to digest what you just told me.
  • The editor was asked to digest the lengthy report into a one-page summary.
  • It was a harsh criticism, but he managed to digest it.
  • The chemical slowly digests the organic material.

Advanced Usage

• "To digest a defeat": To accept and come to terms with a loss.

  • The team needed time to digest their defeat in the finals.

• "A digest of opinions": A compiled summary of various viewpoints.

  • The committee published a digest of public opinions on the new policy.

Variants and Related Words

• Digestible (adj): Able to be digested or understood easily.

  • The professor made the complex topic digestible for beginners.

• Digestion (n): The process of digesting food or information.

  • Proper digestion is essential for good health.

• Digestive (adj): Relating to the digestion of food.

  • The digestive system breaks down food.

Synonyms

• Noun: Summary, compilation, abstract, synopsis.
• Verb: Process, absorb, comprehend, condense, endure, tolerate, break down.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• "Hard to digest": Difficult to accept or believe.

  • The news of his sudden departure was hard to digest.

• "Food for thought": Something that warrants serious thinking, which one must then digest.

  • His lecture gave us a lot of food for thought to digest.

Học thuật

Noun

1. something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
2. a periodical that summarizes the news

Verb

1. soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
2. make more concise
   • condense the contents of a book into a summary
3. soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
4. systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
   • the government digested the entire law into a code
5. become assimilated into the body
   • Protein digests in a few hours
6. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
   • I cannot bear his constant criticism
   • The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
   • he learned to tolerate the heat
   • She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
7. arrange and integrate in the mind
   • I cannot digest all this information
8. convert food into absorbable substances
   • I cannot digest milk products

Từ đồng nghĩa

• compilation
• condense
• concentrate