(v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
(v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
(v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
(v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
(v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
(v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
(v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
(v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
(v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(3) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(4) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(5) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(6) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(7) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(8) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(9) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(10) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(11) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(12) Therefore, we conclude this is a bovine DR beta-like pseudogene, BoDR beta I. Exon-containing regions have been used as probes in Southern blot analyses of bovine genomic DNA digested with EcoRI.
(13) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(14) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(15) Amino acid analysis indicated a significant number of serine amino acids: N-terminal sequence data demonstrated a high level of homology; and trypsin digestion followed by reversed-phase HPLC indicated the possibility of multiple phosphorylation sites.
(16) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(17) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(18) Since the gastric motor pattern consisted of two major subpatterns, digestive and interdigestive motor activity, motilin was tested for its motor stimulating activity in both states.
(19) The product (AF-AGIIb-1) of digestion of AGIIb-1 with exo-alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase had markedly increased anti-complementary activity, as did that (AF-N-I) of N-I.
(20) The digestion products were separated by electrophoresis in agarose gels.
Upshot
Definition:
(n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
Example Sentences:
(1) One upshot of this alliance is a weekly, free HIV testing and support service for sex workers in the Westminster area.
(2) The upshot of that is that the government's finances did the splits: the tax take collapsed just as welfare spending shot upwards.
(3) Perhaps the principal upshot of this was what would become known as the "impasse" in development studies.
(4) 39 min: After a 22-man debate about the rights and wrongs of the red card, hot heat particularly emanating from Puyol, the upshot of it all is that Barcelona have a free-kick just outside the Chelsea area.
(5) The New York Times Upshot model gives Democrats a 57% chance of winning the Senate, and may even seriously erode the Republican party’s tighter grip on the House of Representatives.
(6) A debt-to-GDP ratio in excess of 200% is the upshot of more than two decades of sluggish growth and repeated attempts to pump-prime the economy.
(7) The upshot of all this is simple, but so at odds with Westminster groupthink that it feels almost funny.
(8) The upshot is that fans will get a full day's action to watch in Paris .
(9) The upshot is that the Bank of Japan still has plenty of work to do to boost price pressures.” The Nikkei benchmark index opened sharply higher on Monday, gaining more than 3% off the back of gains on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday, as well as encouraging US retail sales figures.
(10) That’s what appears to be the upshot of the Gawker v Hulk Hogan trial so far.
(11) The upshot is that it's hard to compare this year's result to previous years.
(12) She depicts an exquisitely awkward meeting during which the dads had to be set to DIY, otherwise they would all have just sat around wondering whether or not to talk about cancer – the upshot of which was that they assembled her an exercise bike, which sits pristine in the corner of the room.
(13) But the upshot was that the elders allegedly said, 'Go back to Ann Cryer and tell her it's nothing to do with us.
(14) The upshot was that she had to go through a very challenging and upsetting complaints procedure over many, many months, even though the outcome was sanction of the old male academic in question.
(15) I've just spent half an hour on the phone to various Labour party people, and here is the not-exactly-revelatory upshot: " bigotgate " – if you want to call it that – is beyond grim.
(16) The upshot is that we would not necessarily expect a sustained rise in Treasury yields even if the Fed, perhaps mindful of the implications for its balance sheet and eventual exit strategy, does scale back its purchases later in the year.
(17) One upshot, some would argue, is that he fits bill of a classic lone wolf – a profile that had been much feared by security officials.
(18) The upshot, after a second meeting the following year, was an experiment: could they get to know each other by number-crunching their lives, one topic per week, with only a handful of coloured pens to bring their data to life?
(19) This is something that we can go out and make a real impact by casting a vote directly for the issue.’ I think the voters get that.” The upshot of the 2014 midterms: minimum wage is an issue that draws voters even without the multimillion-dollar campaigns devoted to other issues, like labelling genetically modified foods .
(20) While it may be the only standalone data journalism website, it’s competing with sections in numerous other newspapers: The Upshot, in the New York Times; Wonkblog in the Washington Post; and the Guardian’s own data blog (now five years old) to name just a handful.