different between estimation vs digest

English

Alternative forms

• æstimation (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio.Morphologically estimate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??me???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

estimation (countable and uncountable, plural estimations)

1. The process of making an estimate.
2. The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
3. Esteem or favourable regard.

Derived terms

• estimate

Related terms

• esteem

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• æstimation (obsolete)

Etymology

estimer +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.ti.ma.sj??/

Noun

estimation f (plural estimations)

1. estimate; estimation (rough calculation or guess)

Further reading

• “estimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English digesten, from Latin d?gestus, past participle of d?ger? (“carry apart”), from d?- (for dis- (“apart”)) + ger? (“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-j?st?, d?-j?st?, IPA^(key): /da??d??st/, /d??d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

digest (third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
   • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

     joining them together and digesting them into order
3. (transitive) 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.
4. (transitive) 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.
   • 1566, Henry Sidney, letter to Philip Sidney

     Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

   • Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

5. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk - Toleration-Norwegians

     I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

6. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
7. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.

8. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
9. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
10. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
    • 1662, Jeremy Taylor, The Measures and Offices of Friendship

      well-digested fruits

11. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such 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
• (chemistry, soften by heat and moisture):
• (undergo digestion):

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin d?gesta, neuter plural of d?gestus, past participle of d?ger? (“separate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d??j?st, d??j?st, IPA^(key): /?da?d??st/, /?da?d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

digest (plural digests)

1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

4. (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 Pandects of Justinian, but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics.

Translations

Anagrams

• gisted, tidges

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??st/

Noun

digest m (plural digests)

1. digest (collection of articles)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?gestus.

Adjective

digest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular digeste)

1. digested