The difference between Digest and Upshot
When used as nouns, digest means that which is digested, whereas upshot means a concise summary.
Digest is also verb with the meaning: to distribute or arrange methodically.
check bellow for the other definitions of Digest and Upshot
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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"
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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.
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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.
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Digest as a verb:
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
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Digest as a verb (transitive, chemistry):
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
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Digest as a verb (intransitive):
To undergo digestion.
Examples:
"I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest."
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Digest as a verb (medicine, obsolete, intransitive):
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
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Digest as a verb (medicine, obsolete, transitive):
To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
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Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To ripen; to mature.
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Digest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)
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Digest as a noun:
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
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Digest as a noun:
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
Examples:
"Comyn's Digest"
"the United States Digest"
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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."
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Digest as a noun (cryptography):
The result of applying a hash function to a message.
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Upshot as a noun (US):
A concise summary.
Examples:
"I'm not interested in hearing all the details. Just give me the upshot."
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Upshot as a noun:
The final result, or outcome of something.
Examples:
"The upshot was, that they had to get married."