(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should authorities decide not to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Brown , there will be an explosion, Gist predicted.
(2) In a separate ruling today, the appeal court said the government must reveal the gist of "sensitive" intelligence material to Kashif Tariq , whose cousin was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to murder in the plot to blow up aircraft with liquid bombs.
(3) The GIST for IgE is simple to perform and requires neither short-lived radioisotopes, expensive scintillation detection equipment, nor scarce, purified IgE.
(4) Chilcot announced last month that after years of heated disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, he had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.
(5) Here's the link to their story (in Spanish), but the gist is that Real's Florentino Perez had agreed a €45m fee with Arsenal, only for Ozil to opt against the move.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) We studied "formal thought disorder" in schizophrenics, schizoaffectives, and manics by examining syntax processing and perception of meaning, using the "embedded click" and "memory for gist tasks," two paradigms that were developed by psycholinguists.
(8) Dedicated political obsessives follow his step-by-step guides to why the Tories are wrong, but few others pick up even the gist.
(9) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
(10) However, muscle-specific actin (HHF35) caused a positive reaction in most GIST (92%).
(11) Dow is evaluating Earth Genome’s software to see if GIST can help the company make good water infrastructure decisions that conserve resources, control long term water costs, and help it avoid future competition with farmers and cities.
(12) Nevertheless, Williams says that Bryan's emails, or the gist of them, should have been relayed to the CQC inspector responsible for Winterbourne View.
(13) The gist of that diplomatic foot stamping may seem vaguely familiar to those following Australian politics recently.
(14) Preliminary studies indicate that the GIST makes possible nonisotopic measurement of ragweed-specific IgE antibiotics in human serum.
(15) While the people of Doncaster might not know the detail of the national statistics, they are aware of the gist.
(16) 5.42pm BST Some instant reaction to the Berlusconi video message: Vincenzo Scarpetta (@LondonerVince) Gist of #Berlusconi 's video message: He won't quit politics even if ousted from parliament.
(17) Weick says the forecasting functions in GIST allow him to layer on variables such as local population growth and water use trends, which will impact future water pricing.
(18) "I would rather have root canal surgery without anaesthetic than go to Glastonbury," was the gist of her response.
(19) Excluding 24 cases of gastric schwannoma, 96 cases of GIST consisting of 62 benign tumors and 34 sarcoma (low grade, 17; high grade, 17), with 9 cases arising in the esophagus, 57 in the stomach, 28 in the small intestine, and 2 in the colon, were studied.
(20) The final wording was under review by the White House but the basic gist remained unchanged, scientists who worked on the report said.
Grist
Definition:
(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
(n.) Supply; provision.
(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
(2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
(3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
(4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
(5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
(6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible") but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
(7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
(8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
(9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
(12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
(13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
(14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
(15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
(16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
(17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
(18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
(19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
(20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.