digest

digérer

Décomposer les aliments dans le corps en éléments plus petits qu’il peut utiliser.

En anglais simple : If your body does this, it breaks food into smaller parts that it can use.

• Babies cannot digest every kind of food.
• My body digested the meal slowly.
• Do you find beans hard to digest?

Expressions courantes : digest food, digest milk, digest a meal

assimiler, digérer

Réfléchir à des informations lues ou entendues jusqu’à bien les comprendre.

En anglais simple : To read or hear information and think about it until you understand it.

• I need time to digest the news.
• She read the report twice to digest its findings.
• Have you digested all that information yet?

Synonymes : absorb, take in

Expressions courantes : digest information, digest the news, digest a report

se digérer

Pour un aliment, se décomposer dans le corps après avoir été mangé.

En anglais simple : If food does this, it breaks down inside your body after you eat it.

• Let your lunch digest before swimming.
• The heavy meal took hours to digest.
• Does this food digest easily?

Expressions courantes : food will digest, let something digest, digest slowly

classer, ordonner

Répartir des documents écrits en catégories claires pour les retrouver et les utiliser plus facilement.

En anglais simple : To sort written material into clear groups so it is easier to find and use.

• The scholar digested the laws by subject.
• They digested the records into clear sections.
• Her task was to digest scattered notes into an orderly account.

Comment l'utiliser : digest something into something (The clerk digested the records into separate categories.)

Synonymes : classify, arrange, organize

Expressions courantes : digest laws, digest records, digest into sections

condensé, recueil

Livre, magazine ou autre publication réunissant des articles choisis ou des versions abrégées d’autres textes.

En anglais simple : A book, magazine, or other publication containing selected articles or shortened versions of other writing.

• I read a weekly news digest.
• The editor included three articles in the digest.
• Does this digest cover international news?

Comment l'utiliser : digest of something (The newsletter provides a digest of recent articles.)

Synonymes : compilation, summary publication

Expressions courantes : weekly digest, news digest, monthly digest

recueil, synthèse

Ensemble d’informations recueillies et classées par sujet pour être faciles à consulter.

En anglais simple : Information collected, sorted by subject, and presented in an easy-to-use form.

• The digest lists information under clear headings.
• He prepared a digest of the old records.
• We used her digest to find the relevant facts.

Comment l'utiliser : digest of something (She prepared a digest of the research notes.)

Synonymes : compendium, organized summary

Expressions courantes : a digest, detailed digest, digest of something

recueil juridique

Recueil de lois ou de décisions de justice résumées et classées par sujet.

En anglais simple : A collection of laws or court decisions, shortened and arranged by subject.

• The lawyer consulted a legal digest.
• This digest groups court decisions by subject.
• A new edition of the digest includes recent cases.

Comment l'utiliser : digest of something (The library holds a digest of court decisions.)

Synonymes : legal compendium

Expressions courantes : legal digest, case digest, digest of laws