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gist

English

Etymology

From Old French gist, from the verb gesir (to lie down), from Latin iace?. Compare French gésir or gîte (lodging).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??st/
  • Rhymes: -?st

Noun

gist (plural gists)

  1. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
    • 1948, Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock, page 103,
      "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."
    • 1996, Nicky Silver, Etiquette and Vitriol, Theatre Communications Group 1996, p. 10:
      I was really just vomiting images like spoiled sushi (that may be an ill-considered metaphor, but you get my gist).
    • 2003, David McDuff, translating Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Penguin 2003 p. 183:
      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.
  2. (law, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
  3. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
    • 1601, Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History, 1st ed., book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:
      These Quailes have their set gists, to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set gists, to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]

Synonyms

  • (most essential part): crux, quintessence; See also Thesaurus:gist
  • (essential ground for action): gravamen
  • (resting place): lair

Translations

Verb

gist (third-person singular simple present gists, present participle gisting, simple past and past participle gisted)

  1. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.
    • 1873, Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association, session of the year 1872, at Boston, Massachusetts, page 201:
      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, []

Translations

References

  • Webster, Noah (1828) , “gist”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
  • “gist” in Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed, 1856.
  • gist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • GTis, ISTG, gits, stig, tigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??st/
  • Hyphenation: gist
  • Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gest, gist, from Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gist f (plural gisten)

  1. yeast
Derived terms
  • biergist
  • gisten
  • gistzwam
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: gis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of gisten
  2. imperative of gisten

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gissen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of gissen

Middle English

Noun

gist

  1. Alternative form of gest

Old French

Verb

gist

  1. third-person singular present indicative of gesir

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin i?stus, j?stus.

Adjective

gist m (feminine singular gista, masculine plural gists, feminine plural gistas)

  1. right

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Alternative forms

  • jeist

Etymology

From Middle English juste.

Adverb

gist

  1. just, just now

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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objective

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin obiect?vus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/, /?b?d???k.t?v/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/
  • Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

objective (comparative more objective, superlative most objective)

  1. Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
  2. Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
  3. Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
  4. (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
  5. (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
    • 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
      The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.

Usage notes

  • Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.

Antonyms

  • subjective

Derived terms

  • nonobjective
  • objective correlative
  • objectivity

Translations

Noun

objective (plural objectives)

  1. A material object that physically exists.
  2. A goal that is striven for.
    • Objectives are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
  3. (grammar) The objective case.
    Synonyms: object case, objective case
  4. (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
  5. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:goal

Translations


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b.??k.tiv/
  • Homophone: objectives

Adjective

objective

  1. feminine singular of objectif

Latin

Adjective

object?ve

  1. vocative masculine singular of object?vus

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