'Stomach' definitions:
Definition of 'stomach'
(from WordNet)
noun
An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket]
noun
The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly]
noun
An inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness; "he had no stomach for a fight"
noun
An appetite for food; "exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner"
verb
Bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"
verb
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]
Definition of 'Stomach'
From: GCIDE
- Stomach \Stom"ach\, n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.]
- 1. (Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and {Gastric juice}, under Gastric. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. [1913 Webster]
- He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
- Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
- Stomach worm (Zool.), the common roundworm ({Ascaris lumbricoides}) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stomach'
From: GCIDE
- Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stomached; p. pr. & vb. n. Stomaching.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.]
- 1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stomach'
From: GCIDE
- Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stomach'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- abdomen,
- abide,
- abomasum,
- accept,
- aftertaste,
- anus,
- appendix,
- appetite,
- bay window,
- bear,
- bear with,
- beard,
- beerbelly,
- belly,
- bitter,
- blind gut,
- blink at,
- bowels,
- brain,
- brains,
- breadbasket,
- brook,
- canine appetite,
- cecum,
- chitterlings,
- cockscomb,
- colon,
- condone,
- connive at,
- corporation,
- countenance,
- craving,
- craw,
- crop,
- desire,
- diaphragm,
- digest,
- disregard,
- down,
- drought,
- dryness,
- duodenum,
- eat,
- embonpoint,
- emptiness,
- empty stomach,
- endocardium,
- endure,
- entrails,
- first stomach,
- flavor,
- foregut,
- giblets,
- gizzard,
- go,
- gullet,
- gust,
- gut,
- guts,
- hankering,
- haslet,
- have,
- hear of,
- heart,
- hindgut,
- hollow hunger,
- honeycomb stomach,
- hunger,
- hungriness,
- ignore,
- inclination,
- indulge,
- innards,
- inner mechanism,
- insides,
- internals,
- intestine,
- inwards,
- jejunum,
- kidney,
- kidneys,
- kishkes,
- large intestine,
- liver,
- liver and lights,
- longing,
- lung,
- manyplies,
- marrow,
- maw,
- midgut,
- midriff,
- need,
- omasum,
- overlook,
- palate,
- paunch,
- perineum,
- pocket,
- pocket the affront,
- polydipsia,
- pot,
- potbelly,
- potgut,
- psalterium,
- pump,
- pusgut,
- put up with,
- pylorus,
- rectum,
- relish,
- rennet bag,
- reticulum,
- rumen,
- salt,
- sapidity,
- sapor,
- savor,
- savoriness,
- second stomach,
- smack,
- small intestine,
- sour,
- spare tire,
- spleen,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stick,
- suffer,
- swagbelly,
- swallow,
- swallow an insult,
- sweet,
- sweet tooth,
- sweetbread,
- take,
- tang,
- tapeworm,
- taste,
- third stomach,
- thirst,
- thirstiness,
- ticker,
- tolerance,
- tolerate,
- tongue,
- tooth,
- torment of Tantalus,
- tripe,
- tripes,
- tum-tum,
- tummy,
- turn aside provocation,
- underbelly,
- venter,
- ventripotence,
- vermiform appendix,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- wink at,
- works,
- yearning
Words containing 'Stomach'
- Stomachal,
- Stomached,
- Stomacher,
- Stomachful,
- Stomachfully,
- Stomachfulness,
- Stomachic,
- Stomachical,
- Stomaching,
- Stomachous,
- Honeycomb stomach,
- Pit of the stomach,
- Rennet stomach,
- Siphonal stomach,
- Stomach cough,
- Stomach pump,
- Stomach staggers,
- Stomach tube,
- Stomach worm,
- Sucking stomach,
- To turn the stomach of,
- first stomach,
- fourth stomach,
- second stomach,
- stomach ache,
- stomach exercise,
- stomach flu,
- stomach sweetbread,
- stomach upset,
- third stomach,
- upset stomach,
- High-stomached,
- turn one's stomach