digest

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
2. 2
   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. 3
   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.
4. 4
   To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
5. 5
   To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. 6
   To undergo digestion.
7. 7
   To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. 8
   To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. 9
   To ripen; to mature.
10. 10
    To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).

Noun

1. 1
   That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
2. 2
   A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
3. 3
   Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
4. 4
   The result of applying a hash function to a message.