gists
(rare) plural of gist
• There's evidence that even our unconscious efficiently only stores the gists of memories.
• He made a listing of the gists of 1,000 consecutive episodes.
• The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past.
• stigs
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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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