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Gut vs Soul - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gut and soul

is that gut is the alimentary canal, especially the intestine while soul is the spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.

As verbs the difference between gut and soul

is that gut is to eviscerate while soul is to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

As an adjective gut

is made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings

As an initialism GUT

is grand unification theory.

gut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
  • (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
  • beer gut
  • (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
  • A person's emotional, visceral self.
  • I have a funny feeling in my gut .
  • (in the plural) The essential, core parts.
  • He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
  • (in the plural) Ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.
  • It took a lot of guts to admit to using banned substances on television.
  • (informal) A gut course
  • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut .
  • A narrow passage of water.
  • the Gut of Canso
  • The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
  • Synonyms

    * alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards * , belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy * (intestines of an animal used to make strings) catgut

    Derived terms

    * catgut * gut barging * gut feeling * hate someone's guts * gutless * gutsy * tailgut

    Verb

    (gutt)
  • To eviscerate.
  • To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
  • :* fire gutted the building
  • :* Congress gutted the welfare bill.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
  • Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    soul

    English

    (wikipedia soul)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

    Alternative forms

    * sowl (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • * Young
  • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----