Edible vs Digested - What's the difference?
edible | digested |
That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
That can be eaten without disgust.
* 1957 , Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies'', in 1996, Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer (editors), ''Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries ,
* 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs ,
* 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs ,
Anything edible.
(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
(digest)
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.
As an adjective edible
is that can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.As a noun edible
is anything edible.As a verb digested is
(digest).edible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- edible fruit
- Although stale, the bread was edible .
page 81,
- However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible' than its model, the Monarch, but initially less ' edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
page 17,
- Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
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- This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.
Usage notes
edible is the most common term for “capable of being eaten”; eatable is rather informal, due to simple analysis as eat with , while comestible is relatively formal.Synonyms
* comestible * eatable * eatworthyAntonyms
* inedibleCoordinate terms
* drinkable, potable * delectableNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* foodReferences
*Anagrams
*digested
English
Verb
(head)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.