The difference between Digest and The long and short

Digest as a verb (transitive):

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

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.

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.

Digest as a verb:

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

Digest as a verb (transitive, chemistry):

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

Digest as a verb (intransitive):

To undergo digestion.

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

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

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

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

Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

To ripen; to mature.

Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

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

Digest as a noun:

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

Digest as a noun:

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

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.

Digest as a noun (cryptography):

The result of applying a hash function to a message.

The long and short as a noun (usually followed by [[of]]):

The gist; the essence or substance; the most important or salient features.