Digest

Digest can refer to any of the following:

  • A condensed collection or compendium of writings:
    • Pandects, or "The Digest", a digest of Roman law
    • A tax digest
    • Digest size magazine format, used by some magazines (though not always consistently used by magazines with "Digest" in their names)
    • 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
  • 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.
  • A feature in electronic mailing list to receive email digest only.
  • In biology, a restriction digest cleaves DNA using restriction endonucleases, or protein is digested into peptides

DIGEST can refer to:

  • Digital Geographic Exchange Standard

Famous quotes containing the word digest:

    “To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
    —Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)

    “The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “The eating of a MacDonald’s meal is like the reading of Reader’s Digest—small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cut down, abridged. Reader’s Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.”
    —Clive Bloom, British educator. “MacDonald’s Man Meets Reader’s Digest,” Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits?, St. Martin’s Press (1990)