Digest vs Appendix - What's the difference?
digest | appendix |
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.
Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
*, vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:
Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text.
(anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed.
As nouns the difference between digest and appendix
is that digest is that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles while appendix is something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.As a verb digest
is to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.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.
Usage notes
* (compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged) The term is applied in a general sense to the of Justinian, but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics.appendix
English
(wikipedia appendix)Noun
(en-noun)- idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […].