to distribute
→
to digest (food)
3 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Catalan | |
| lexeme | digerir | |
| meaning 1 | to arrange, to bring in order | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to digest (food) | |
| reference | DIEC2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | digest | |
| meaning 1 | to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application | We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. ( William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”) |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | 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 | |
| reference | English Wiktionary OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | digero, digerere | |
| meaning 1 | to distribute, disseminate, disperse | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to digest (food) | |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||