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Stomach vs Vitals - What's the difference?

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Stomach is a related term of vitals.


As nouns the difference between stomach and vitals

is that stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion while vitals is (plurale tantum) those organs of the body that are essential for life.

As a verb stomach

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

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

    vitals

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (plurale tantum) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
  • (plurale tantum, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
  • (medicine, plurale tantum) vital signs
  • Quotations

    *1827 Ann Hasseltine Judson - An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire *:they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out *2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 *:This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces. *1991 Suzy Szasz - Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy *:At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals

    Derived terms

    * stap my vitals