Belly vs Angor - What's the difference?
belly | angor |
The abdomen.
The stomach, especially a fat one.
The womb.
* Bible, Jer. i. 5
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 454:
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
* Bible, Jonah ii. 2
(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
To position one's belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
* Dryden
To cause to swell out; to fill.
* Shakespeare
(medicine, dated) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between belly and angor
is that belly is the abdomen while angor is great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.As a verb belly
is to position one's belly.As a proper noun Angor is
a language of Papua New Guinea in Sandaun province. It belongs to the small Senagi family.belly
English
Noun
(bellies)- (Dunglison)
- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
- There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
- the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
- Out of the belly of hell cried I.
Derived terms
* beer belly * bellyache * belly button/belly-button * belly dance/belly-dance * belly dancer/belly-dancer * belly dancing * belly flop, bellyflop * bellyful * belly laugh/belly-laugh * bellyless * bellylike * belly of the beast * Delhi belly * fire in the belly * sawbelly * sharpbellyUsage notes
* Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.See also
* have eyes bigger than one's belly * abdomen * bouk * stomach * tummyVerb
- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
- Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.
