Stomach vs Bowel - What's the difference?
stomach | bowel |
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
(chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
* Fuller
(obsolete, in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
As nouns the difference between stomach and bowel
is that stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion while bowel is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.As verbs the difference between stomach and bowel
is that stomach is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something while bowel is to disembowel.stomach
English
(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.
Derived terms
* stomachable * unstomachableAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsbowel
English
Noun
(en noun)- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,
Derived terms
* bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowelVerb
(bowell)- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].