What is the difference between gut and stomach?
gut | stomach | Synonyms |
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
(informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
A person's emotional, visceral self.
(in the plural) The essential, core parts.
(in the plural) Ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.
(informal) A gut course
A narrow passage of water.
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.
To eviscerate.
To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
:* fire gutted the building
:* Congress gutted the welfare bill.
Made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
Instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction
An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
(informal) The belly.
(obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
* 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:
* John Locke
(obsolete) Appetite.
*, II.ii.1.2:
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:
(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:
To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
(obsolete) To be angry.
(obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
* 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
* L'Estrange
* Milton
Stomach is a synonym of gut.
In informal terms the difference between gut and stomach
is that gut is a gut course while stomach is the belly.In transitive terms the difference between gut and stomach
is that gut is to remove or destroy the most important parts of while stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.As an adjective gut
is made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut stringsAs an initialism GUT
is grand unification theory.gut
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Noun
(en noun)- beer gut
- I have a funny feeling in my gut .
- He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
- It took a lot of guts to admit to using banned substances on television.
- You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut .
- the Gut of Canso
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) catgutDerived terms
* catgut * gut barging * gut feeling * hate someone's guts * gutless * gutsy * tailgutVerb
(gutt)Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
* ----stomach
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(wikipedia stomach)Alternative forms
* stomackNoun
(en noun)- Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
- He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;
- This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
- a good stomach for roast beef
- If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
- You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.
- I have no stomach for a fight today.
- That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:
Synonyms
* (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummyDerived terms
* sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomachDescendants
* stummy, tummyVerb
(en verb)- I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
- I can't stomach her cooking.
- (Hooker)
- O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
- The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
- The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.