gist

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

essentiel

substance

noyau

🪨

essence

fond

🔙

point essentiel

teneur

aperçu

résumé

sommaire

presque

sens

somme

table des matières

viande

🥩

vigueur

coeur

fin mot

gîte

idée principale

point principal

retombée

fondamentaux

signification

sens profond

abrégé

but

centre

cœur

❤️

effet

en gros

moelle

motif

opinion

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Kern

Wesentliche

Hauptpunkt

essenza

wezen

ουσία

quid

essentie

esencia

özet

essence

Hauptinhalt

essência

sostanza

nucli

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪst/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à français: gésir

Appartenant à 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.