different between speculation vs digest

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin specul?ti?, specul?ti?nem, from Latin speculor.Morphologically speculate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kj??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: spec?u?la?tion

Noun

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

1. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
   • 2012, Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby (in The Guardian, 3 December 2012)[1]

     The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.

2. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
3. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
4. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
5. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

     Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.

   • 1883, Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy

     Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.

6. Examination by the eye; view.
7. (obsolete) Power of sight.
8. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
9. (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:supposition

Derived terms

• "on speculation" (on spec) Creating a work with the hope of selling it, as opposed to creating a work "on commission" for hire.

Translations

Anagrams

• peculations, placentious, spinoculate

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