0 the most important pieces of information about something, or general information without details: --
I think I got (= understood) the gist of what she was saying.
That was the gist of what he said.
1 the main subject, without details, of a piece of information: --
Here is the gist of an argument for that claim.
That, in fact, is the gist of any defense offered by the federal administration to date.
Three weeks later subjects were asked to recall the gist of the film clips in each series.
The gist of the problem is that supervenience, by itself, only guarantees that one kind of fact is 'fixed' by other kinds of fact.
This casts doubt on the worth and usefulness of the dialectic between anthropology and medicine - as neither captures the gist of the experience at stake.
The gist of the task is as follows.
I will address the contested details before restating the gist of the original critique and by so doing suggest that it still stands unanswered.
This gives the gist of the narrative, but does not cover many other important aspects of the unfolding tragedy of the war.
