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

  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. Upshot as a noun (US):

    A concise summary.

    Examples:

    "I'm not interested in hearing all the details. Just give me the upshot."

  2. Upshot as a noun:

    The final result, or outcome of something.

    Examples:

    "The upshot was, that they had to get married."