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Stomach vs Schoolbus - What's the difference?

stomach | schoolbus |

As nouns the difference between stomach and schoolbus

is that stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion while schoolbus is .

As a verb stomach

is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

stomach

English

(wikipedia stomach)

Alternative forms

* stomack

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].
  • * 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:
    • He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;
  • * John Locke
    • This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
  • (obsolete) Appetite.
    • a good stomach for roast beef
  • *, II.ii.1.2:
    • 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.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:
    • You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.
  • (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
    • I have no stomach for a fight today.
  • * 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:
    • That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:

    Synonyms

    * (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummy

    Derived terms

    * sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

    Descendants

    * stummy, tummy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
    • I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
    I can't stomach her cooking.
  • (obsolete) To be angry.
    • (Hooker)
  • (obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • * 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
    • O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
  • * Milton
    • The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.

    Derived terms

    * stomachable * unstomachable

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    schoolbus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 6, author=Lawrence Downes, title=And the Bronze Goes to ..., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But it would be hard to fill a schoolbus with New Yorkers who know Robert Livingston, one of the lesser founding fathers, and George Clinton, not the guy with Parliament Funkadelic, but the other one who was Thomas Jefferson’s vice president. }} ----