Compilation vs. Digest — What's the Difference?

The action or process of producing something, especially a list or book, by assembling information collected from other sources

To convert (food) into simpler chemical compounds that can be absorbed and assimilated by an organism, as by chemical and muscular action in the digestive tract.

A thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast programme, that is put together by assembling previously separate items

To think over so as to understand; absorb or assimilate

The act of compiling.

To organize into a systematic arrangement, usually by summarizing or classifying.

Something, such as a report, anthology, or set of data, that is compiled.

To condense or abridge (a written work).

(uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

(Biochemistry) To decompose (organic compounds), especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.

(countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.

(Chemistry) To soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.

Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

To become assimilated into the body.

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

To assimilate food substances.

That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.

(Biochemistry) To undergo decomposition, especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.

Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

(Chemistry) To undergo exposure to heat, liquids, or chemical agents.

The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list);

A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.

(Law) A systematic arrangement of abstracts from court decisions designed to simplify the locating of relevant case law.

A periodical containing literary abridgments or other condensed works.

Digest See pandect.

A product of biochemical digestion

(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) 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.

To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

(intransitive) To undergo digestion.

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

To ripen; to mature.

To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such 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 including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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.

To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

To ripen; to mature.

To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

A periodical that summarizes the news

Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Convert food into absorbable substances;

Arrange and integrate in the mind;

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant;

Become assimilated into the body;

Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing;

Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Make more concise;

Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture