The difference between Digest and Sort out

When used as verbs, digest means to distribute or arrange methodically, whereas sort out means to clarify by reviewing mentally.

Digest is also noun with the meaning: that which is digested.

check bellow for the other definitions of Digest and Sort out

  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 out as a verb (transitive):

    To clarify by reviewing mentally.

    Examples:

    "It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later."

  2. Sort out as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange.

    Examples:

    "Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?"

  3. Sort out as a verb (transitive):

    To fix, as a problem.

    Examples:

    "The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?"

  4. Sort out as a verb (transitive):

    To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.

    Examples:

    "Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?"

  5. Sort out as a verb (transitive):

    To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.

    Examples:

    "We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't."

    "They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C."

  6. Sort out as a verb (transitive, British, slang):

    To attack physically.

    Examples:

    "If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out."

  7. Sort out as a verb (UK, slang):

    To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.

    Examples:

    "- Hey man, I want some weed.<br>- I'll sort you out, mate."

    "We really need to sort Chris out with a girlfriend."

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