Intestines vs Gut - What's the difference?
intestines | gut |
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
As a noun intestines
is .As an initialism gut is
grand unification theory.gut
English
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