Belly vs Recesses - What's the difference?
belly | recesses | Synonyms |
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
As nouns the difference between belly and recesses
is that belly is the abdomen while recesses is plural of recess.As verbs the difference between belly and recesses
is that belly is to position one's belly while recesses is third-person singular of recess.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.
