gist
英検準1級要点・要旨
意味
- 要旨,要点
例文
I got the gist of what he was saying.
彼が言っていることの要点はわかった。
I don't understand it very well, but I think I get the gist of it.
よく分からないけどおよその見当はつく。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down). The verb is derived from the noun. The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist, introduced 2008.