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gist Saltos de línea: gist

Definición de gist en inglés:


[in singular]
1The substance or general meaning of a speech or text: it was hard to get the gist of Pedro’s talk
Más ejemplos en oraciones
  • The general gist of the plots are all protagonists love and lose out.
  • I can remember the general gist of them, but nothing specific.
essence, substance, quintessence, main idea/theme, central idea/theme, nub, core, heart, heart of the matter, nucleus, kernel, pith, marrow, meat, burden, crux, important point;
informal nitty-gritty
2 Law The real point of an action: damage is the gist of the action and without it the plaintiff must fail
Más ejemplos en oraciones
  • The gist of the tort of unlawful interference is the intentional infliction of economic harm.


Early 18th century: from Old French, third person singular present tense of gesir 'to lie', from Latin jacere. The Anglo-French legal phrase cest action gist 'this action lies' denoted that there were sufficient grounds to proceed; gist was adopted into English denoting the grounds themselves (sense 2).

Palabras que riman con gist

assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, exist, grist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, tryst, twist, whist, wist, wrist

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