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Synoptic vs Digest - What's the difference?

synoptic | digest |

As nouns the difference between synoptic and digest

is that synoptic is one of the gospels while digest is that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

As an adjective synoptic

is relating to the first three gospels of the new testament, which are similar in style and content.

As a verb digest is

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

synoptic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a synopsis.
  • Obtained simultaneously over a wide area, for presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.
  • (label) Pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
  • Anagrams

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    digest

    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.