kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
(noun) 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”
effect, essence, burden, core, gist
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gist (plural gists)
The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
(legal, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
(obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
• (most essential part): crux, quintessence; See also gist
• (essential ground for action): gravamen
• (resting place): lair
gist (third-person singular simple present gists, present participle gisting, simple past and past participle gisted)
To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.
• GTis, gits, stig, tigs
Source: Wiktionary
Gist, n. Etym: [OF. giste abode, lodgings, F. gîte, fr. gésir to lie, L. jac, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jacre to throw. In the second sense fr. OF. gist, F. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, F., c'est là que gît le lièvre, 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.]
1. A resting place. [Obs.] These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places. Holland.
2. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 March 2025
(adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; “staccato applause”; “a staccato command”; “staccato notes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
