Compilation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
Example sentence: There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
Digest
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titlesA compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Example sentence: Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.