Gist means to the substance or essence of a speech or text.
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Gistor is not a word included in the English dictionary. Gist means a substance or essence of speech or text.
The g in Gist is a soft g so Gist is pronounced --- jist
The student did not understand every detail of the information, but he got the gist of it.
Gist is the correct spelling of the word."Jist" is a very common misspelling of it.An example sentence is: "He was beginning to get the gist of it now".
The gist of something means: a general idea of its essential contents, the main substance of what has been written or main theme of written writes. So if you 'get the gist' of something, you have grasped the main point(s). "Just give me the gist' means "I don't want all the details, just give me a (very!)