gist

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
2. (countable, dated) The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen.
3. (Nigeria, uncountable) Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this.
4. (countable, uncountable) A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.

Verb

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (Nigeria, intransitive) To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.

Konzepte

Kern

Wesentliche

Hauptpunkt

Hauptinhalt

Hauptsache

Inhalte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Kernpunkt

kurze Zusammenfassung

lebensnotwendig

Obststein

Resümee

Sinn

Skizze

Substanz

Synopse

Tenor

Überblick

Umriss

Wesen

wesentlich

wesentliches

Wille

Zusammenfassung

Kernaussage

Wesentliches

springender Punkt

Wollen

wichtiger Punkt

wesentlicher Inhalt

Hauptziel

Hauptbedeutung

Auszug

Anteile

essentiell

Extrakt

Gehalte

Inhalt

Synonyme

essence

core

point

substance

meaning

kernel

summary

purport

heart

❤️

pith

main point

nub

marrow

essentials

abstract

motive

nitty-gritty

outline

idea

💡

opinion

essential part

epitome

essential

content

sum

burden

center

heart and soul

meat

🥩

tenor

quiddity

theme

centre

nucleus

effect

main points

inwardness

object

aim

sense

significance

statement

stone

🪨

subject

substantial

summery

table of contents

text

thrust

vital

Übersetzungen

essentiel

wezen

essenza

noyau

🪨

essentie

quid

substance

esencia

özet

ουσία

kern

fond

🔙

nucli

sostanza

essence

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪst/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Französisch: gésir

Verwandt mit Anglo-Norman: (cest) action gist

In summary

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.