digest

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

“to digest laws”

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 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.

To undergo digestion.

“I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.”

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.

“Comyn's 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 result of applying a hash function to a message.