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stomach /ˈstʌmək /noun1The internal organ in which the major part of the digestion of food occurs, being (in humans and many mammals) a pear-shaped enlargement of the alimentary canal linking the oesophagus to the small intestine: [as modifier]: severe stomach pains...- For most other common solid tumours such as those of lung, oesophagus, stomach, or pancreas, only limited survival gains have been achieved.
- Smooth cells make up the stomach, intestine, blood vessels and other organs.
- The idea was that fibre fills the stomach and reduces the desire to overeat.
Synonyms abdomen, belly, gut, middle informal tummy, tum, breadbasket, insides Australian informal bingy 1.1Each of four stomachs in a ruminant (the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum).He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria....- More advanced artiodactyls, the ruminants, have evolved complex stomachs with three or four chambers.
- To a small extent, this can also happen in the stomachs of ruminant animals, such as cows and sheep, but without the same detrimental effect as the man-made variety.
1.2Any of a number of organs analogous to the stomach in lower animals.Material remaining in the stomach can include food, mucus, or hair....- Like pangolins, aardvarks have a long, protrusile tongue and a gizzard-like stomach.
- In these studies, stomachs from 4th instar A. aegypti larvae were examined using both transmission and scanning electron microscopy.
1.3The front part of the body between the chest and thighs; the belly: Blake hit him in the stomach...- My favourite part of a guy's body is his stomach and then his chest.
- He stood in front of me, looking down at his stomach and chest.
- Furtive glances dissect her at thighs, hips, stomach, chest and face.
Synonyms paunch, pot belly, beer belly, girth informal beer gut, pot, tummy, spare tyre, middle-aged spread Scottish informal kyte North American informal bay window dated, humorous corporation 1.4 [in singular] The stomach viewed as the seat of hunger, nausea, anxiety, or other unsettling feelings: Virginia had a sick feeling in her stomach...- I paced restlessly around my small cell, stomach twisting with anxiety, and hunger.
- My stomach tightened, and I thought of leaving him outside, but he'd already seen me peering at him through the window.
- Her stomach tightened when she reached over to brush some hair from the other girl's face and saw that those blue eyes were clouded over.
2 [in singular, usually with negative] An appetite for food or drink: she doesn’t have the stomach to eat anything...- I hadn't had the stomach to finish my food after all I had learned that evening.
- Vera and Charlie were served dinner on board the jet, but Charlie didn't have the stomach to eat.
- He was now alone, the smell of fried eggs and bacon still strong in the room, but he had not the stomach to eat.
2.1A desire or inclination for something involving conflict or difficulty: the teams proved to have no stomach for a fight...- The AFL-CIO is quietly packing up its local support operation, sensing that SAG has no stomach for a real fight.
- But behind the scenes there is no stomach for a fight.
- If he continually bemoaned such circumstances he would find himself out of tune with his own support, who have no stomach for even genuine excuses.
verb [with object] (usually cannot stomach) 1Consume (food or drink) without feeling or being sick: if you cannot stomach orange juice, try apple juice...- Just days after her birth, Stacey was diagnosed with the disease when doctors found a tube in her intestine was blocked and she could not stomach any food.
- While he could actually stomach the food, I couldn't and choose a banana and water.
- All my meals were on the set, when I could actually stomach food.
Synonyms digest, keep down, find palatable, manage to eat/consume, swallow 1.1Endure or accept (an obnoxious thing or person): I can’t stomach the self-righteous attitude of some managers...- From soundings I've taken inside the Labour Party, people cannot stomach a war and some are going to leave the party.
- Ideologies that affirm a set of basic truths, such as feminism and classical or neo-Marxism, cannot stomach postmodernism.
- Howard's government ‘cannot stomach the truth of their policy failings’.
Synonyms tolerate, put up with, take, stand, endure, accept, swallow, bear, support, brook, submit to, countenance; Scottish thole informal stick, hack, abide British informal wear, be doing with archaic suffer Phrasesan army marches on its stomach on a full (or an empty) stomach a strong stomach Derivativesstomachful /ˈstʌməkfʊl/ noun (plural stomachfuls) ...- Because they consume so much more plant matter per stomachful of food on the dry diet of summer and fall than they do on the wet spring diet, the tortoises can store more energy than they burn.
- The ants are attracted to the sweet gel and can take a stomachful of poison back to their mound.
- We've already mentioned penniless banana growers and people who don't want a stomachful of growth hormones.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French estomac, stomaque, via Latin from Greek stomakhos 'gullet', from stoma 'mouth'. The early sense of the verb was 'be offended at, resent' (early 16th century). The ultimate source of our word stomach is Greek stomakhos ‘gullet’, from stoma ‘mouth’, source of the anatomical term (late 17th century). A common saying is the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. The earliest expression of these sentiments is by John Adams, the second American president, in a letter he wrote in 1814: ‘The shortest road to men's hearts is down their throats’. See also nation
Rhymeshummock, slummock |