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noun
1.
the main or essential part of a matter: What was the gist of his speech?
2.
the ground of a legal action.
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Gist
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | the point or substance of an argument, speech, etc |
| 2. | law the essential point of an action |
| [C18: from Anglo-French, as in cest action gist en this action consists in, literally: lies in, from Old French gésir to lie, from Latin jacēre, from jacere to throw] | |
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Word Origin & History
gist
1711, "the real point" (of a law case, etc.), from Anglo-Fr. legalese phrases, especially cest action gist "this action lies," meaning "this case is sustainable by law," from O.Fr. gist en "it consists in, it lies in" (third pers. sing. pres. indicative of gésir "to lie"), from L. jacet "it lies."
Extended sense of "essence" first recorded 1823.
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Example sentences
The gist of the article is true, but it is not the complete picture.
The gist of the article is that five to six times it has been declared that icing on wings has been completely solved.
You could get the gist of a sentence, but not read it clearly.
The gist of a lot of the posts seems to be it's a long shot but more power to them.
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