Gist

What do we mean by gist?

The central idea; the essence. synonym: substance. noun

The grounds for action in a suit. noun

A resting-place; a couch. noun

A lodging-place; a place of rest or halt in traveling. noun

A beam: same as joist. noun

An aphetic form of agist (which see).

The point on which an action rests; the substance or pith of a matter; the main point: as, the gist of an argument. noun

A resting place. noun

The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter. noun

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

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

Resting place (especially of animals), lodging. noun

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

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience noun

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work noun

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

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

Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.

Noun. The general meaning of something. To "get the gist" means to understand something, but not to be expert in it. Urban Dictionary

The gist is in fact the nub, to get the gist is to get the general nub and be all and end of all of the point. Urban Dictionary

The feeling you get in your pants when a cute teacher walks by, or your gym coach tells you to hit the showers early. Urban Dictionary

A quick one off the wrist. Derived from a combination of jism and wrist. Not related to fisting. Urban Dictionary

Another word for gossip. To give you the gist of a situation that is gossip worthy. Often response to gist is to "gist me". Origin of this is Nigeria but its used in London lingo Urban Dictionary

An un-in-depth explanation or short detailed explanation for any circumstances or happenings that may have occurred! Urban Dictionary

Reason of an action Urban Dictionary

The act of learning enough about a subject to be dangerous in conversation or writing. Those who are adept at gisting can participate in conversations with subject experts without getting lost along the way. Anyone who prides themselves on knowing a little about a lot, knowing enough to be dangerous, or being considered a quick study is probably good at gisting. Urban Dictionary

A holiday celebrated on the eleventh of every month in honor of Gabriel Saporta. To celebrate Gist Day you simply wear a purple or red hoodie. Urban Dictionary

A person who cuts, shaves, and trims hair, and beards. An expert in grooming Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to gist:
gist.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word gist:
verbatim, ideation, mordecai, indexes, retrieval, startup, semantic, traces, cherokee, secession, surveyor, boot, entrepreneurs, framing, cary, blair, gemini, entrepreneurship, greenwood, tumor, settler, brigadier, charleston, confederate, interred, maryland, alexandria, false, processes, memories, innovation, memory, reasoning, howard, hart, christopher, initiative, explorer, explored, militia, conversation, ohio, carolina, preston, baltimore, attitude, item, org, saving, emerging, detail, principle, translation, continental, louisiana, regiment, processing, slaves, enterprise, nba, global, experts, kentucky, miss, settlements, virginia, traveled, pitch, implementation, argument, surname, commanded, whereas, message, brigade, adults.

Words that rhyme with gist:
list, just, twist, cyst, assist, persist, exist, mist, tryst, consist, insist, resist, desist, midst, enlist, fist, grist, subsist, schist, checklist, wrist, whist, cist, coexist, podiatrist, blacklist, missed, oculist, wist, recidivist, nativist, liszt, proctologist, dismissed, pissed, kist, numismatist, rist, baptiste, dissed, nist, delist, backlist, quist, lindquist, kissed, preexist, frist, reminisced, vist, shist, short list, rehnquist, hissed, sick list, crist, bolshevist, sebaceous cyst, waiting list, pilar cyst, frost mist, ovarian cyst, sechrist, free list, class list, mailing list, price list, snow mist, sunkist, clenched fist, stock list, hemorrhagic cyst, krist, blood cyst, sundquist, blomquist, lundquist, hist-, seaquist, cyst-, ahlquist, dahlquist, holmquist, rundquist, sandquist, bloomquist, chryst, cronquist, edquist, elmquist, enquist, ghrist, granquist, hedquist, melquist, neopositivist, newquist, ramqvist, runquist, steenkiste.

Adjectives that are often used to describe gist:
whole, general, real, very, main, basic, true, overall, radiant, full, essential, entire, constant, elemental, malignant, metastatic, advanced, exact, semantic, practical, bare, actual, 25th, broad, gastric, mere, rough, divine, resistant, adventurous, barest, emotional, unresectable, bold, correct, explicit, wonderful, abstract, ethical, gastrointestinal, inferential, intrepid, goon, doughty, immoral, refractory, improbable, naked, perceptual, meaningful.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective gist:
brocades, memory, representations, translation, thereof, recall, cong, information, memories, traces, regiment, year, division, questions, representation, psalm, extraction, point, condition, being, processing, meaning, sentence, idea, comprehension, section, strategy, congress, repetition, evans, right, agreement, blair, understanding, task, tasks, december, level, retrieval, points, discourse, highlanders, trace, street, march, thrust, ideas, summary, theme, reading, quality, tumors, october, learning, peck, purport, interference, detail, details, august, construction, july, reaches, thousand, preference.

Consonant match to gist:
just, jest, joist, gest, joust, geste, jost, juste, juiced, joost, jessed.

Words that sound like gist:
just, gist, jist, jest, gest, geste, jessed, joust, juiced, joist, jost, joost, schist, shist, chiste, chest, git, jit, cest, jis, gists, justa, chesed, gitt, jst, jitt, juist, jytte, ceste, chased, chaste, hissed, hist, chast, eest, oest, jet, jess, adjust, jester, jesse, jessie, jessy, jessi, jace, jus, jut, jett, jests, jessa, gess, jacy, justy, juste, jette, justo, jesi, agist, juster, jetzt, justs, egest, jessye, gesto, ajuste, gesta, guest, guessed, gust, yest, yoest, yust, jast, guste, gees, ges, iest, hust, hest, jass, geet, gypped, gte, jacet, giat, jasey, giese, iast, jagt, gisa, j c, gisi, g suit, gce, jassa, iust, giusti, g c, gece, giusto.