Digest vs Condense - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between digest and condense

is that digest is to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application while condense is .

As a noun digest

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

As an adjective condense is

condensed.

digest

English

(wikipedia digest) (Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

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

to digest laws

* Blair

joining them together and digesting them into order

* Shakespeare

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested .

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

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

* Shakespeare

How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?

* Book of Common Prayer

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

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

* Coleridge

I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

(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.

Food digests well or badly.

(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

well-digested fruits

(obsolete) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.

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)

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

the United States Digest

Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest " 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.

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

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.

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.

Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.

* Milton

In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.

* Motley

The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.

(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

Synonyms

* (to decrease size or volume) minify

Antonyms

* extend * magnify

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.

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