• Finnish: järjestellä, luokitella, annostella
• Spanish: digerir

• Chinese: 消化
• Finnish: sulattaa
• French: digérer
• German: verdauen
• Hebrew: לעכל (le'akel)
• Italian: digerire

Pronunciation 2

• , /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/, /"daIdZEst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Translations

Digest can refer to any of the following:

• Digestion of food
• Digest access authentication in HTTP, SIP and other computer network protocols
• Hash algorithm, sometimes called "message digest"
• A style or format of distribution of electronic mailing lists in which multiple messages are placed together and distributed as a single unit. It is a MIME Multipart Subtype. See MIME.
• Pandects, a digest of Roman law
• In biology, a restriction digest cleaves DNA using restriction endonucleases, or protein is digested into peptides
• Any of several periodical publications with "Digest" in the title:
  • Children's Digest
  • Consumers Digest
  • Football Digest
  • Golf Digest
  • Reader's Digest
  • Writer's Digest
• Digest size magazine format, used by some magazines (though not always consistently used by magazines with "Digest" in their names)

DIGEST can refer to:

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