What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Belly vs Suite - What's the difference?

belly | suite |

As nouns the difference between belly and suite

is that belly is the abdomen while suite is a retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.

As a verb belly

is to position one's belly.

belly

English

Noun

(bellies)
  • The abdomen.
    • (Dunglison)
  • The stomach, especially a fat one.
  • The womb.
  • * Bible, Jer. i. 5
    • Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
  • The lower fuselage of an airplane.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 454:
    • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
  • The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
    • the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
  • * Bible, Jonah ii. 2
    • Out of the belly of hell cried I.
  • (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

    • 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 * sharpbelly

    Usage 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 * tummy

    Verb

  • To position one's belly.
  • To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
  • * Dryden
    • The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
  • To cause to swell out; to fill.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.

    Derived terms

    * belly up

    suite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.
  • A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.
  • *
    • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
  • A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
  • (music)  A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
  • (music)  An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite'' is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet ''The Nutcracker'', and the ''Carmen Suite'' is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera ''Carmen .

    • Related terms

    * ensuite

    Anagrams

    * ----