Belly vs Intestine - What's the difference?
belly | intestine |
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
(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
* 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p.2:
* 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ch.1,
(obsolete) Internal.
* , I.41:
* Milton
* Hume
(obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
* Cudworth
(obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.
As nouns the difference between belly and intestine
is that belly is the abdomen while intestine is (anatomy|often pluralized) the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.As a verb belly
is to position one's belly.As an adjective intestine is
domestic; taking place within a given country or region.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.
Derived terms
* belly upintestine
English
(wikipedia intestine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , as Etymology 2, below.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bowel * gut * tharmDerived terms
* intestinal * gastrointestinal * large intestine * small intestineSee also
* entrail * innard * colonEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded.
- Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
- When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.
- Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
- an intestine strugglebetween authority and liberty
- Everything labours under an intestine necessity.
- (Cowper)