Understand vs Digest - What's the difference?
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(lb) To be aware of the meaning of.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I understand not what you mean by this.
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, chapter=Foreword To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
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*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
To stand under; to support.
:(Shakespeare)
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
* Blair
* Shakespeare
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.
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
* Shakespeare
* Book of Common Prayer
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
* Coleridge
(chemistry) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
To undergo digestion.
(medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
(obsolete) To ripen; to mature.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest " including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
In transitive terms the difference between understand and digest
is that understand is to be aware of the meaning of while digest is 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.As a noun digest is
that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.understand
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Alternative forms
* understaund (obsolete)Verb
Sam Leith
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citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.
Usage notes
* Common objects of this verb include text'', ''word(s)'', ''sentence(s)'', ''note(s) , etc. * Rarely, the obsolete past tense form understanded'' may be found, e.g. in the ''Book of Common Prayer'' and ''Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican Church .Synonyms
* (to know the meaning) apprehend, comprehend, grasp, know, perceive, pick up what someone is putting down, realise, grok * (to believe) believeAntonyms
* misunderstandDerived terms
* I don’t understand * understandable * understanding * understoodSee also
* explain * whyExternal links
* *digest
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- to digest laws
- joining them together and digesting them into order
- We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested .
- Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
- How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
- Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
- I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
- Food digests well or badly.
- well-digested fruits
Synonyms
* (distribute or arrange methodically) arrange, sort, sort out * (separate food in the alimentary canal) * (think over and arrange methodically in the mind) sort out * (sense) * (undergo digestion)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Comyn's Digest
- the United States Digest
- Reader's Digest is published monthly.
- The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.