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Original entry ↗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. · To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.
The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith. · The essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen. · Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this. · A sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.
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.
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