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Definitions: Gist |
GistNoun1. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GIST | English | Gastro intestinal stromal tumour | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GistSynonyms: burden (n), center (n), core (n), effect (n), essence (n), heart (n), heart and soul (n), inwardness (n), kernel (n), marrow (n), meat (n), nitty-gritty (n), nub (n), pith (n), substance (n), sum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Substance; gist, essence, marrow, spirit. |
Importance | Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. |
Intrinsicality | Noun: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness; Adjective: essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part; (importance). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gist |
| English words defined with "gist": center, compact, compendious, core ♦ essence ♦ heart, heart and soul ♦ inwardness ♦ kernel ♦ marrow, meat ♦ nitty-gritty, nub ♦ pith ♦ substance, succinct, sum, summary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gist": Filioque Controversy ♦ gastrointestinal stromal tumor ♦ HEATHEN ♦ Sortes Virgilianae. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gist" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (leaven, yeast). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I watched Matlock in a bar last night, the sound wasn't on, but I think I get the gist of it. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. According to Professor Howison, of the California State University, Hebrews are heathens. "The Hebrews are heathens!" says Howison. He's A Christian philosopher. I'm A scurril agnostical chap, if you please, Addicted too much to the crime Of religious discussion in my rhyme. Though Hebrew and Howison cannot agree On a modus vivendi -- not they! -- Yet Heaven has had the designing of me, And I haven't been reared in a way To joy in the thick of the fray. For this of my creed is the soul and the gist, And the truth of it I aver: Who differs from me in his faith is an 'ist, And 'ite, an 'ie, or an 'er -- And I'm down upon him or her! Let Howison urge with perfunctory chin Toleration -- that's all very well, But a roast is "nuts" to his nostril thin, And he's running -- I know by the smell -- A secret and personal Hell! Bissell Gip |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.23% of the time. "Gist" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.23% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.19% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 155 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gist" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gist | Last name | 3,000 | 3,576 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gist": gist-listening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gist | 135 | gist guide tv | 4 |
gist tv | 66 | david gist solicitors | 4 |
gist tv listing | 16 | gist soap update | 3 |
soap opera gist | 16 | david gist | 3 |
gist in time | 12 | george gist | 3 |
gist tumor | 11 | gist silversmith | 3 |
cancer gist | 9 | gist opera soap update | 3 |
get gist opera soap | 9 | gist gleevec | 3 |
christopher gist | 8 | gist rv | 2 |
gist soap | 8 | carole gist | 2 |
buckle gist | 7 | gist right state | 2 |
gist brocades | 6 | belt buckle gist | 2 |
gist silversmiths | 5 | discussion gist | 2 |
get gist | 4 | gist james | 2 |
buckle gist rodeo | 4 | richard gist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thelb (backbone, burden, core, crux, essence, essentiality, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nub, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), esencë (crux of the matter, distillate, essence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كنه جوهرة, لب (backbone, core, heart, marrow, pith), زبدة (butter, choice, fat, quintessence, shortening, upshot), خلاصة (abstract, docket, epitome, essence, extract, extraction, outline, pith, precis, quintessence, recap, recapitulation, resume, substance, summary, summation), جوهر (core, effect, essence, essential nature, immanence, matter, pith, principle, quiddity, quintessence, root, soul, substance, taproot), النقطة الرئيسية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | същност (entity, essence, inwardness, juice, kernel, merits, nature, pith, point, quiddity, reality, self, spirit, sum, thisness), същина (content, core, distillation, essence, guts, heart, inbeing, inside, inwardness, marrow, matter, meat, nub, pith, point, quiddity, substance, sum and substance, thisness), главен мотив (mainspring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 大要 (abstract, main points). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podstata (bedrock, being, essence, essentiality, guts, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nubble, pith, principle, quintessence, spirit, substance, substantiality), osnova (warp), jádro vìci (basics, crux of the matter, the core of the matter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wezen (be, character, creature, essence, nature), kern (atomic nucleus, bend, boss, butt, core, core area, core wood, essence, fuel element core, heart, heart center, heart centre, kernel, magnetic core, multiplier, nucleus, pit, pith stock, sprue, stock, web, web thickness), essentie (essence), essence (artificial essence, artificial flavour, artificial flavouring, essence, essential oil, ethereal oil, flavour, flavouring, flavouring agent, flavouring matter, flavouring substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | esenco (essence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | aðalinnihald (essence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملخص (Compendious, Sketch, Summary), مطلب عمده , مراد (Aim, Wish), نکته مهم , لب کلام (Heart), جان کلام . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olemus (being, essence, nature, substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point principal, fond, essentiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wesentliches (substance), hauptpunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύριο μέροσ (bulk), ουσία (being, entity, essence, marrow, matter, nature, nub, pith, pithiness, quiddity, quintessence, savor, savour, substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תמצית (abstract, decoction, digest, epitome, essence, heart, marrow, outline, pith, quintessence, sap, summary, syllabus, synopsis), תוכן (capacity, content, contents, meat, quota, substance), תקציר (abstract, brief, resume, summary, synopsis), עקר (barren, basis, crux, doctrine, dogma, essence, foundation, futile, impotent, infertile, main, nub, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, sterile, substance, tenet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veleje vminek (body, burden, guts, kernel of sg, marrow, pith, quintessence, substance), magja vminek (core), lényege vminek (body, burden, guts, prime mover, purport, quintessence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | intisari (abstract, digest, essence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sostanza (essence, material, matter, nourishment, stuff, substance), nocciolo (chemical shim core, chemically shimmed core, core, hazel, hazelnut-tree, heart, kernel, multiplier, nucleus, point, stone), essenza (concrete, concrete oil, entity, essence, essential oil, ethereal oil, flavour, pith, spirit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 趣 (appearance, aspect, charm, effect, grace, influence, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), 要旨 (essentials, fundamentals, summary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもむき (appearance, aspect, charm, effect, grace, influence, meaning, refinement, taste, tenor), がいりゃく (in brief, outline, summary), が"もく (core, essence, main object, point), しゅい (aim, first place, head position, idea, leading position, main meaning, meaning, motive, opinion), しゅし (finger, idea, meaning, motive, object, opinion, pit, seed), ようりょう (capacity, dose, electrical capacitance, essentials, outline, point), ようて" (main point, positive reaction), ようし (adopted child, appearance, blank form, essentials, figure, fundamentals, paper manufactured in the Western manner, premature death, proton, son-in-law, summary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bree (animation, drift, effect, energy, essence, exhalation, glow, implication, importance, initiative, interpretation, inwardness, power, significance, stamina, validity, vigour, virtue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kjerne (churn, core, heart), hovedinnhold. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istgay essência (being, bottom, distillatory, essence, essential oil, ethereal oil, extract, extraction, flavour, inwardness, juice, marrow, nature, soul, substance). (various references) substanţã (color, colour, essence, mass, material, matter, paregoric, stuff, substance), punctul central, miez al lucrurilor, fond (background, bottom, content, elements, essence, field, fund, ground, groundwork, gut, matter, spine, staple, stock, substance, sum, supply), esenţã (base, being, bottom, content, core, cream, essence, essential, extract, kernel, kind, marrow, materiality, meat, pith, quiddity, quintessence, substance, sum). (various references) суть (backbone, burden, core, cruces, crux, heart, marrowbone, nub, pith). (various references) suština (being, bottom, essence, essentiality, habitude, heart, inwardness, marrow, matter of fact, nub, pith, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, substance, substantiality, vitals). (various references) quid (crux). (various references) huvudpunkt (guiding point, head, kingpin, master point, vanishing point). (various references) ใจความสำคัญ (core). (various references) asıl (actual, authentic, Cardinal, central, elementary, extraction, foundation, fountain-head, groundwork, in chief, intrinsic, main, master, origin, original, origination, pivotal, principal, principally, provenance, real, root stock, true, virtual), anafikir (distillation, substance), özet (abridgement, abstract, brief, compendium, compress, condensation, conspectus, digest, epitome, extract, outline, precis, resume, roundup, short, sum, summary, summation, synopsis), öz (compact, compendious, content, core, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole). (various references) суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, essential, existence, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), сутність (alcohol, being, core, essence, essentiality, self). (various references) nguyên nhân chính thực chất, lý do chính. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | jacet, summa. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | gist en. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gist": gists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gist": agist, algologist, allergist, analogist, anesthesiologist, angelologist, anthologist, anthropologist, apologist, archaeologist, archeologist, assemblagist, astrobiologist, audiologist, bacteriologist, bibliopegist, biologist, biotechnologist, bryologist, campanologist, cardiologist, cetologist, chronobiologist, chronologist, climatologist, collagist, conchologist, cosmetologist, cosmologist, counterstrategist, criminologist, cryobiologist, cryptologist, cryptozoologist, cytologist, cytotechnologist, demonologist, dendrochronologist, dendrologist, deontologist, dermatologist, diabetologist, dialectologist, dialogist, druggist, ecclesiologist, ecologist, electrologist, electrophysiologist, elegist, embryologist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gist": agisted, agisting, agists, algologists, allergists, analogists, anesthesiologists, angelologists, anthologists, anthropologists, antiphlogistic, apologists, archaeologists, archeologists, assemblagists, astrobiologists, audiologists, bacteriologists, bibliopegists, biologistic, biologists, biotechnologists, bryologists, campanologists, cardiologists, cetologists, chronobiologists, chronologists, climatologists, collagists, conchologists, cosmetologists, cosmologists, counterstrategists, criminologists, cryobiologists, cryptologists, cryptozoologists, cytologists, cytotechnologists, demonologists, dendrochronologists, dendrologists, deontologists, dermatologists, diabetologists, dialectologists, dialogistic, dialogists, dirigiste, druggists. (additional references) | |
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"Gist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cgis, egist, Egisto, Gaisf, ganst, Gastp, gastr, gasut, gawt, geist, Geiste, geost, gesith, gest, gesto, gestum, gfsa, ghit, Ghiz, giat, gibt, gic, giest, giet, giht, gint, giot, gis, Gisa, gish, gism, gisse, giste, gists, gisy, gits, Gitsg, gitt, giz, gizz, goest, goist, Gosht, gost, Gosta, gosth, gosti, gs, gsd, gst, Gtis, gusat, gyst, gyt, iggt, xist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gist" (pronounced ji"st) |
| 3 | -i" s t | assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, delist, desist, dismissed, enlist, exist, fist, grist, hissed, insist, kissed, kist, list, missed, mist, persist, pissed, preexist, reminisced, resist, schist, subsist, twist, wist, wrist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gits. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: git, its, sit, tis. | |
-2 letters: is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agist, gaits, gifts, gilts, girts, gists, grist, grits, sight, staig, sting, tings, trigs, twigs. | |
+2 letters: ageist, agists, bights, bigots, digest, dights, digits, egoist, eights, fights, gainst, gaslit, gestic, giants, gigots, girths, glints, gratis, grifts, griots, grists, griths, guilts, hights, ingest, ingots, legist, legits, lights, mights, nights, pigsty, rights, sating, sights, signet, siting, slight, spigot, staigs, stigma, stingo, stings, stingy, stogie, string, stying, taigas, thighs, things, tigers, tights, tigons, tinges, trigos, tsking, wights. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41758586 |
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