different between belly vs intestine

English

Etymology

From Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English belg, bælg, bæli? (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el??- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg. Doublet of blague. See also bellows.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Hyphenation: bel?ly

Noun

belly (plural bellies)

1. The abdomen, especially a fat one.

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2. The stomach.

3. The womb.
4. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 454:

     There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.

5. The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
6. (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

Usage notes

• Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: bere

Translations

See also

• abdomen
• bouk
• have eyes bigger than one's belly
• stomach
• tummy

Verb

belly (third-person singular simple present bellies, present participle bellying, simple past and past participle bellied)

1. To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 7,^[1]

     Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.

2. (intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Rhyme of the Three Captains,”^[2]

     The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,

   • 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Chapter 6,^[3]

     There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.

   • 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"

     winds from sternward

     Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...

   • 1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,^[4]

     The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.

3. (transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2,^[5]

     Your breath of full consent bellied his sails;

   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Chapter I, I,^[6]

     A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.

Derived terms

• bellying
• belly out
• belly up

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?st?n/, /?n?t?s?ti?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/, /??nt?sta?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Etymology 1

From Latin intest?num, neuter of intest?nus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below.

Noun

intestine (plural intestines)

1. (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
2. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.

Synonyms

• bowel
• gut
• tharm

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• entrail
• innard
• colon

Etymology 2

From Latin intest?nus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).

Adjective

intestine (not comparable)

1. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p.2:

     It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.1,

     Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

2. (obsolete) Internal.
   • a. 1776, David Hume, Of the Origin of Government

     a perpetual intestine struggle […] between authority and liberty

3. (obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     Every thing labours under an intestine necessity.

4. (obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.

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Italian

Adjective

intestine f pl

1. feminine plural of intestino

Latin

Adjective

intest?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of intest?nus