Guts vs Being - What's the difference?
guts | being |
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
(slang) Courage; determination.
:* It must have taken some guts to speak in front that audience.
:* She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts .
(slang) Content, substance.
:* His speech had no guts in it.
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out ).
A living creature.
The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
* Shakespeare
(philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
(philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
(obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
* Steele
(obsolete) Given that; since.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
As nouns the difference between guts and being
is that guts is while being is a living creature.As a verb being is
.As a conjunction being is
(obsolete) given that; since.guts
English
(wikipedia guts)Noun
(head)Synonyms
* (entrails) entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera * (courage) balls, nerve, pluck, big ballsVerb
(es)- He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
Anagrams
* * ----being
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being .
- (Wright)
- It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.
Derived terms
* beingdom * beingful * beinghood * beingless * beingness * (noun ) human beingConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].
