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GIST Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Gist
(n.)
The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
(n.)
A resting place.
(n.)
The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
(n.)
A resting place.
| WordNet 2.0 |
gist
Noun
1. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
(synonym) effect, essence, burden, core
(hypernym) meaning, significance, signification, import
2. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
(synonym) kernel, substance, core, center, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
(hypernym) content, cognitive content, mental object
(hyponym) bare bones
Noun
1. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
(synonym) effect, essence, burden, core
(hypernym) meaning, significance, signification, import
2. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
(synonym) kernel, substance, core, center, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
(hypernym) content, cognitive content, mental object
(hyponym) bare bones
| hEnglish - advanced version |
gist
gist
\gist\ (?), n. [of. giste abode, lodgings, f. gîte, fr. gésir to lie, l. jac&?;re, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jac&?;re to throw. in the second sense fr. of. gist, f. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, f., c'est là que gît le lièvre, it is there that the hare lies, i. e., that is the point, the difficulty. see jet a shooting forth, and cf. agist, joist, n., gest a stage in traveling.]
1. a resting place. [obs.] these quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.
2. the main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
gist
n
1. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core]
2. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the republican party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]
gist
\gist\ (?), n. [of. giste abode, lodgings, f. gîte, fr. gésir to lie, l. jac&?;re, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jac&?;re to throw. in the second sense fr. of. gist, f. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, f., c'est là que gît le lièvre, it is there that the hare lies, i. e., that is the point, the difficulty. see jet a shooting forth, and cf. agist, joist, n., gest a stage in traveling.]
1. a resting place. [obs.] these quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.
2. the main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
gist
n
1. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core]
2. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the republican party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, essence, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Gist
Gist = n. clay earth
Gist = n. clay earth
GIST Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
| NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms |
GIST
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor. A type of tumor that usually begins in cells in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. It can be benign or malignant.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor. A type of tumor that usually begins in cells in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. It can be benign or malignant.
GIST Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Nuclear Energy Acronyms |
GIST
GDCS Integral System Test
GDCS Integral System Test
| Oceanographic, Meteorologal & Climatologal abbreviations and acronyms |
GIST
GCIP Integrated Systems
GCIP Integrated Systems
GIST Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
GiST
In computing, GiST or Generalized Search Tree, is a data structure and API that can be used to build a variety of disk-based search trees. GiST is a generalization of the B+ tree, providing a concurrent and recoverable height-balanced search tree infrastructure without making any assumptions about the type of data being stored, or the queries being serviced. GiST can be used to easily implement a range of well-known indexes, including B+ trees, R-trees, hB-trees, RD-trees, and many others; it also allows for easy development of specialized indexes for new data types. It can not be used directly to implement non-height-balanced trees such as quad trees or prefix trees (tries), though like prefix trees it does support compression, including lossy compression. GiST can be used for any data type that can be naturally ordered into a hierarchy of supersets. Not only is it extensible in terms of data type support and tree layout, it allows the extension writer to support any query predicates that they choose. The most widely-used GiST implementation is in the PostgreSQL relational database; it was also implemented in the Informix Universal Server, and as a standalone library, libgist.
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Gist
GIST may be:
- , the central idea or the essence
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, an R&D university in Gwangju city, South Korea
- GiST, or Generalized Search Tree, a flexible datastructure for building search trees
- Gist (Computing), a scientific graphics library written in C programming language
- Gastrointestinal stromal tumor, an uncommon malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract
- German Institute of Science and Technology, in Singapore
- Gist (band), a punk revival band
- Gist (company), a company which is part of the The BOC Group
- Gist, the grounds for action in a suit
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