Digest vs. Abstract — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Digest and Abstract
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Digest
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.
Abstract
Considered apart from concrete existence
An abstract concept.
Digest
To think over so as to understand; absorb or assimilate
It took a minute to digest the implications of the remark.
Abstract
Not applied or practical; theoretical.
Digest
To organize into a systematic arrangement, usually by summarizing or classifying.
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Abstract
Difficult to understand; abstruse
Abstract philosophical problems.
Digest
To condense or abridge (a written work).
Abstract
Denoting something that is immaterial, conceptual, or nonspecific, as an idea or quality
Abstract words like truth and justice.
Digest
(Biochemistry) To decompose (organic compounds), especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.
Abstract
Impersonal, as in attitude or views.
Digest
(Chemistry) To soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.
Abstract
Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation
Abstract painting and sculpture.
Digest
To become assimilated into the body.
Abstract
A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
Digest
To assimilate food substances.
Abstract
Something abstract.
Digest
(Biochemistry) To undergo decomposition, especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.
Abstract
An abstract of title.
Digest
(Chemistry) To undergo exposure to heat, liquids, or chemical agents.
Abstract
To take away; remove
Abstract the most important data from a set of records.
Digest
A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.
Abstract
To remove without permission; steal
A painting that was abstracted from the museum.
Digest
(Law) A systematic arrangement of abstracts from court decisions designed to simplify the locating of relevant case law.
Abstract
To consider (an idea, for example) as separate from particular examples or objects
Abstract a principle of arrangement from a series of items.
Digest
A periodical containing literary abridgments or other condensed works.
Abstract
(ăbstrăkt′) To write a summary of; summarize
Abstract a long article in a paragraph.
Digest
Digest See pandect.
Abstract
To create artistic abstractions of (something else, such as a concrete object or another style)
"The Bauhaus Functionalists were ... busy unornamenting and abstracting modern architecture, painting and design" (John Barth).
Digest
A product of biochemical digestion
Purifying the peptides in a digest.
Abstract
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
Digest
(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
To digest laws
Abstract
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Digest
(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.
Abstract
Concentrated essence of a product.
Digest
(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.
Abstract
(medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
Digest
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Abstract
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
Digest
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Abstract
The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
Digest
(intransitive) To undergo digestion.
I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
Abstract
(arts) An abstract work of art.
Digest
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Abstract
(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
Digest
To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Abstract
(obsolete) Derived; extracted.
Digest
To ripen; to mature.
Abstract
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
Digest
To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
Abstract
Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
Digest
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Abstract
Insufficiently factual.
Digest
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Comyn's Digest
The United States Digest
Abstract
Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
Digest
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
Reader's Digest is published monthly.
The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
Abstract
(grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
Digest
(cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Abstract
Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
Digest
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.
Joining them together and digesting them into order.
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
Abstract
Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Digest
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.
Abstract
Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
Digest
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.
Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
How shall this bosom multiplied digestThe senate's courtesy?
Abstract
(archaic) Absent-minded.
Digest
To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
Abstract
(arts) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
Digest
Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.
Abstract
Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20th century.
Digest
To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Abstract
(music) Absolute.
Digest
To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Abstract
(dance) Lacking a story.
Digest
To ripen; to mature.
Well-digested fruits.
Abstract
Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Digest
To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Abstract
(transitive) To separate; to disengage.
Digest
To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Abstract
(transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
Digest
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Abstract
To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
Digest
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
Abstract
(transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
Digest
A periodical that summarizes the news
Abstract
To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
Digest
Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
Abstract
To extract by means of distillation.
Digest
Convert food into absorbable substances;
I cannot digest milk products
Abstract
(transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
Digest
Arrange and integrate in the mind;
I cannot digest all this information
Abstract
To withdraw oneself; to retire.
Digest
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
I cannot bear his constant criticism
The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
He learned to tolerate the heat
She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Abstract
(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
Digest
Become assimilated into the body;
Protein digests in a few hours
Abstract
To perform the process of abstraction.
Digest
Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing;
The government digested the entire law into a code
Abstract
To create abstractions.
Digest
Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
Abstract
To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
He abstracted out the square root function.
Digest
Make more concise;
Condense the contents of a book into a summary
Abstract
Withdraw; separate.
The more abstract . . . we are from the body.
Digest
Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
Abstract
Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
Abstract
Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; - opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes.
Abstract
Abstracted; absent in mind.
Abstract
To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
Abstract
To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
Abstract
To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
Abstract
To epitomize; to abridge.
Abstract
To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
Abstract
To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
Abstract
To perform the process of abstraction.
I own myself able to abstract in one sense.
Abstract
That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
An abstract of every treatise he had read.
Man, the abstractOf all perfection, which the workmanshipOf Heaven hath modeled.
Abstract
A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
Abstract
An abstract term.
The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety."
Abstract
A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Abstract
A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance;
He loved her only in the abstract--not in person
Abstract
A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
Abstract
Consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
Abstract
Make off with belongings of others
Abstract
Consider apart from a particular case or instance;
Let's abstract away from this particular example
Abstract
Give an abstract (of)
Abstract
Existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment;
Abstract words like `truth' and `justice'
Abstract
Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature;
A large abstract painting
Abstract
Based on specialized theory;
A theoretical analysis
Abstract
Dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention;
Abstract reasoning
Abstract science
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