The difference between Digest and Sort

When used as nouns, digest means that which is digested, whereas sort means a general type.

When used as verbs, digest means to distribute or arrange methodically, whereas sort means to separate according to certain criteria.

check bellow for the other definitions of Digest and Sort

  1. Digest as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "to digest laws"

  2. Digest as a verb (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.

  3. Digest as a verb (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.

  4. Digest as a verb:

    To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

  5. Digest as a verb (transitive, chemistry):

    To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

  6. Digest as a verb (intransitive):

    To undergo digestion.

    Examples:

    "I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest."

  7. Digest as a verb (medicine, obsolete, intransitive):

    To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

  8. Digest as a verb (medicine, obsolete, transitive):

    To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

  9. Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To ripen; to mature.

  10. Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

  1. Digest as a noun:

    That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

  2. Digest as a noun:

    A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

    Examples:

    "Comyn's Digest"

    "the United States Digest"

  3. Digest as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Reader's Digest is published monthly."

    "The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week."

  4. Digest as a noun (cryptography):

    The result of applying a hash function to a message.

  1. Sort as a noun:

    A general type.

  2. Sort as a noun:

    Manner; form of being or acting.

  3. Sort as a noun (obsolete):

    Condition above the vulgar; rank.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  4. Sort as a noun (dated):

    Group, company.

  5. Sort as a noun (informal):

    A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

    Examples:

    "This guy's a decent sort."

  6. Sort as a noun (Australia, informal):

    A good-looking woman.

  7. Sort as a noun:

    An act of sorting.

    Examples:

    "I had a sort of my cupboard."

  8. Sort as a noun (computing):

    An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

    Examples:

    "Popular sorts include quicksort and heapsort."

  9. Sort as a noun (typography):

    A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

  10. Sort as a noun (mathematics):

    A type.

  11. Sort as a noun (obsolete):

    Chance; lot; destiny.

  12. Sort as a noun (obsolete):

    A pair; a set; a suit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Johnson"

  1. Sort as a verb (transitive):

    To separate according to certain criteria.

  2. Sort as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

  3. Sort as a verb (British):

    To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.

  4. Sort as a verb (transitive):

    To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

  5. Sort as a verb (intransitive):

    To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

  6. Sort as a verb (intransitive):

    To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

  7. Sort as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

  8. Sort as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

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