gist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down).
The verb is derived from the noun.
The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist, introduced 2008.
Inflected forms:
form: gists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I don't wanna belabor my point; I'm sure you get the gist.
Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson.
He was handing her something in an envelope, and she was saying “Oh, Jeeves, you've saved a human life,” and he was saying “Not at all, miss.” The gist, of course, escaped me, but I had no leisure to probe into gists.
The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past, by antiquarian interest.
And the work was going very well. I was really just vomiting images like spoiled sushi (that may be an ill-considered metaphor, but you get my gist).
I don't remember his exact words, but the gist of it was that he wanted it all for nothing, as quickly as possible, without any effort.
There's evidence that even our unconscious efficiently only stores the gists of memories and that to fill in details our conscious fabricates them.
gloss: The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
examples: [T]heſe charges, of a traiterous or felonious intent, are the points and very giſt of the indictment, and muſt be anſvvered directly, by the general negative, not guilty; […]
[H]e is guilty of a dereliction of opinions that are true and laudable. This is the great giſt of the charge againſt him.
But it is observable that the substance or gist of the action is not always the principal cause of the plaintiff's complaint in point of fact, nor that on which he recovers all or the greatest part of his damages. It frequently happens that upon that part of his declaration which contains the substance or gist of the action he recovers nominal damages, and he gets his principal satisfaction on account of matters altogether collateral thereto.
Naturally, therefore, conceiving that the gite of the lawyer's reasoning was to defend the want of resemblance as an admitted fact, which it would be useless to deny, the worthy magistrate closed the pleadings, and gave sentence against Mr Whelp, the plaintiff.
gloss: Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
uncountable
gloss: A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For a simple illustration of the issue, take a look at this gist.
Every gist created is a tiny repository. You can update gists and see the history using git log. You can download gists, hack on the repository, […]
For example, findOrCreate can be implemented as a before-hook on the service's get method. See this gist for an example of how to implement this in a before-hook.
gloss: To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, and the pupils of the day take these axioms or principles, and accept them as facts, and apply them to this, that or the other individual case.
gloss: To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
intransitive
Synonyms: bowels
sum
brass tacks
core
crux
essence
gist
drift
guts
gravamen
heart
heart and soul
heartstring
heartstrings
inwardness
kernel
marrow
meat
moral of the story
nitty-gritty
nub
nuts and bolts
pith
punctum saliens
quintessence
soul
spirit
stuff
substance
tenor
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