digest

digerire

Scomporre il cibo nel corpo in parti più piccole che l’organismo può utilizzare.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Espressioni comuni: digest food, digest milk, digest a meal

assimilare, digerire

Riflettere su informazioni lette o ascoltate fino a comprenderle bene.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Sinonimi: absorb, take in

Espressioni comuni: digest information, digest the news, digest a report

digerirsi

Detto del cibo: essere scomposto nel corpo dopo essere stato mangiato.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Espressioni comuni: food will digest, let something digest, digest slowly

classificare, ordinare

Dividere materiale scritto in gruppi chiari per renderlo più facile da trovare e usare.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: digest something into something (The clerk digested the records into separate categories.)

Sinonimi: classify, arrange, organize

Espressioni comuni: digest laws, digest records, digest into sections

compendio, raccolta

Libro, rivista o altra pubblicazione che contiene articoli scelti o versioni abbreviate di altri testi.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Come si usa: digest of something (The newsletter provides a digest of recent articles.)

Sinonimi: compilation, summary publication

Espressioni comuni: weekly digest, news digest, monthly digest

compendio

Informazioni raccolte e ordinate per argomento, presentate in una forma facile da consultare.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: digest of something (She prepared a digest of the research notes.)

Sinonimi: compendium, organized summary

Espressioni comuni: a digest, detailed digest, digest of something

compendio giuridico

Raccolta di leggi o decisioni giudiziarie riassunte e ordinate per argomento.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: digest of something (The library holds a digest of court decisions.)

Sinonimi: legal compendium

Espressioni comuni: legal digest, case digest, digest of laws