Stomach vs Liver - What's the difference?
stomach | liver |
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
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
(countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
* 1993 , Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies , ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9314-0, page 222:
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Of the colour of (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
* 2006 , Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain & Ireland , ISBN 0-543-96651-8, page 298:
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
*, II.31:
*, II.3.7:
* Prior
(live)
As a noun stomach
is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.As a verb stomach
is to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.As an adjective liver is
(label) from or pertaining to liverpool.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 wordsliver
English
(wikipedia liver)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl), (etyl) and (etyl) (m) (the last three from (etyl) (m)).Noun
- Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
- I'd like some goose liver pate.
- You could fry up some chicken livers''' for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken '''liver .
- "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver ."
Usage notes
* The noun is often used attributively to modify other words. Used in this way, it frequently means "concerning the liver", "intended for the liver" or "made of liver" .Derived terms
* chopped liver * cod liver oilAdjective
(-)- His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
Derived terms
* cod-liver oil * lily-livered * liver fluke * liver salts * liver sausage * liver spot * liverish * liverwort * liverwurst * sea liverSee also
* detoxification * fascioliasis * gout * jaundice *Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- Ephori'' of ''Sparta , hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.
- a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man.
- Try if life be worth the liver's care.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "liver")Etymology 3
.Adjective
(head)- Seeing things on big screen somehow makes it seem liver .