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Digest vs Cutting - What's the difference?

digest | cutting |

As verbs the difference between digest and cutting

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

As nouns the difference between digest and cutting

is that digest is that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles while cutting is (countable|uncountable) the action of the verb to cut .

As an adjective cutting is

(not comparable) that is used for cutting.

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.

    cutting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut .
    • How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?
  • (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
  • (countable) A newspaper clipping.
  • (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
  • (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
    • The actor had to make his ''cutting'' shorter to fit the audition time.
  • (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
  • (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
  • (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
  • *1876 , , Journey by Train :
  • *:WE flash across the level.
  • *:We thunder thro' the bridges.
  • *:We bicker down the cuttings .
  • *:We sway along the ridges.

    • Synonyms

    * (narrow passage for a transportation route) cut

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
    • I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
  • Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.
    • The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.