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Intestine vs Entery - What's the difference?

intestine | entery |

As nouns the difference between intestine and entery

is that intestine is the alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs while entery is misspelling of lang=en.

As an adjective intestine

is domestic; taking place within a given country or region.

intestine

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , as Etymology 2, below.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
  • One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
  • Synonyms
    * bowel * gut * tharm
    Derived terms
    * intestinal * gastrointestinal * large intestine * small intestine
    See also
    * entrail * innard * colon

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
  • * 1615 , Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia , Richmond 1957, p.2:
  • It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded.
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ch.1,
  • Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
  • (obsolete) Internal.
  • * , I.41:
  • When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.
  • * Milton
  • Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
  • * Hume
  • an intestine strugglebetween authority and liberty
  • (obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
  • * Cudworth
  • Everything labours under an intestine necessity.
  • (obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.
  • (Cowper)

    entery

    English

    Noun

  • * 1562 , Nicholas Throkmorton in A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth , Volume II., page #26:
  • The ?ayd Mon?ieur d’lvoy, brother to Mon?ieur de Janlis, aun?wered, that the towne and all which were within it were redye and willing to geve the Kinge their ?overayne, all his bretherne, the Queene his mother, the Kinge of Navarre, the princes of the Kinge’s bloud, except tho?e which were con?ederate with the adver?aries to the crowne, noting and naming the Duke of Monpen?ier, fre entery at their plea?ures within the ?ayd towne?;