gist
jist
- n the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- n the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
- It's a crafts-only marketplace oozing with personality imagine if Martha Stewart were reincarnated as Ani DiFranco and you get the gist.
- The gist of the cases is that the drug combination is unnecessarily complicated, using three chemicals when one would do, and that when this procedure is administered by .
- That's the gist of the official von Braun biography posted on the web site of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where under the directorship of von Braun, the mighty Saturn 5 .