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  • verb Simple past of gist.
  • verb Past participle of gist

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Examples

  • Through tight integration with existing translation processes and the translation supply chain, they provide rapid and highly cost-effective solutions for both 'gisted' and high-quality translations.

    Releases feed from RealWire 2008

  • 'It does no good in these degin'rate days to prove that th' best that can come to a man f'r behavin 'himsilf is to be cooked in a pot or di-gisted be a line,' he says.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • There are many reasons for all this, which can be gisted as (a) "the epistemology of science" is not at all what most people suppose, and it is rather distant from the normal ways our minds are set up to work, and (b) that most "educational" processes most places in the world including the US are still teaching "knowledge as religion to be believed in", which *is* what our minds are set up for, and this is how things have been since the Pleistocene.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009

  • There are many reasons for all this, which can be gisted as (a) "the epistemology of science" is not at all what most people suppose, and it is rather distant from the normal ways our minds are set up to work, and (b) that most "educational" processes most places in the world including the US are still teaching "knowledge as religion to be believed in", which *is* what our minds are set up for, and this is how things have been since the Pleistocene.

    science: the ancient / modern distinction Bill Kerr 2009

  • You’ve gisted a number of this ship’s recon reports.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • "You've gisted a number of this ship's recon reports.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

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