Definitions for gist
dʒɪstgist

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. effect, essence, burden, core, gistnoun

   the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

2. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 4 votes

1. gistnoun

   The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter).

2. gistnoun

   The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.

3. gistnoun

   Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.

4. gistverb

   To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.

5. Etymology: From gist, from the verb gesir, from iaceo. Compare Modern French gésir or gîte.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gist

   The gist refers to the main or essential point, part, or substance of a matter, event, or piece of information; a brief summary or overview.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gistnoun

   a resting place

2. Gistnoun

   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

3. Etymology: [OF. giste abode, lodgings, F. gte, fr. gsir to lie, L. jacre, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jacre to throw. In the second sense fr. OF. gist, F. gt, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gsir to lie, used in a proverb, F., c'est l que gt le livre, 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.]

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. 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 cannot be used directly to implement non-height-balanced trees such as quad trees or prefix trees, 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. GiST is an example of software extensibility in the context of database systems: it allows the easy evolution of a database system to support new tree-based indexes. It achieves this by factoring out its core system infrastructure from a narrow API that is sufficient to capture the application-specific aspects of a wide variety of index designs. The GiST infrastructure code manages the layout of the index pages on disk, the algorithms for searching indexes and deleting from indexes, and complex transactional details such as page-level locking for high concurrency and write-ahead logging for crash recovery. This allows authors of new tree-based indexes to focus on implementing the novel features of the new index type — for example, the way in which subsets of the data should be described for search — without becoming experts in database system internals.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gist

   jist, n. the main point or pith of a matter. [From an old French proverb, 'I know where the hare lies'—i.e. I know the main point—O. Fr. gist (Fr. gît)—O. Fr. gesir (Fr. gésir), to lie—L. jacēre.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gist

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1. GIST

   What does GIST stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GIST acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

2. Gist

   Gist vs. Jist -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Gist and Jist.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GIST

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gist is ranked #5419 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gist surname appeared 6,422 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Gist.
   
   48.8% or 3,138 total occurrences were White.
   43.8% or 2,813 total occurrences were Black.
   2.9% or 190 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.5% or 165 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 86 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for gist »

1. stig

2. gits

How to pronounce gist?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say gist in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gist in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of gist in a Sentence

1. Adrian Peterson:

   It’s blown out of proportion. Me and the wife got into an argument on the plane. That was pretty much the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She did n’t press any charges. The state of California pressed charges because there was a scratch on her hand. Literally that’s why I went to jail, because the ring left a scratch on her finger. We just had a disagreement. I know the headlines : Domestic violence. Adrian Peterson ’d think I beat her up or something. It was nothing like that.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Perfection isn't the gist of family's strength; it's found in the resilience despite imperfections.

3. Bobby Jindal:

   The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said -- that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists — is true.

4. Tony Finau:

   The gist of basically what he said was I’m cheering you guys on, I’m right there with you and go fight and make us proud, we were able to do that, and if TW’s watching, thanks for that text, brother, I think it helps us a lot.

5. Anne Quito:

   The gist of the story was : Maybe we've graduated from so-called' chop-suey fonts,' which originated in the early 19th century right as a pastiche of an unknown land, now we've arrived at a very kind of globalized state. We know each other, we know the Chinese as traditional but also modern, we have a more nuanced view of the world. So perhaps we can retire these fonts. Or maybe we can use them in conjunction with other typefaces.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gist
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gist
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gist
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gist
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gist
7. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gist
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html