different between desire vs guts

English

Etymology

From Middle English desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin d?s?der? (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider. Compare also desiderate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/
• (General American) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/, /d??za??/, /di?za??/, /di?za??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: de?sire

Verb

desire (third-person singular simple present desires, present participle desiring, simple past and past participle desired)

1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
3. To want emotionally or sexually.

4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. To require; to demand; to claim.
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses

     A doleful case desires a doleful song.

6. To miss; to regret.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

desire (usually uncountable, plural desires)

1. (countable) Someone or something wished for.

2. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.

3. (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.

4. (uncountable) Motivation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (one or thing wished for): wanna, want-to; See also Thesaurus:desire
• (motivation): wanna, want-to

Translations

See also

• velleity

Related terms

• desirable
• desiring-production
• desirous

Further reading

• desire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• desire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• desier, eiders, eresid, redies, reside

Italian

Alternative forms

• desiro
• disire, disiro

Etymology

From Old Occitan dezire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?zi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: de?sì?re

Noun

desire m (plural desiri)

1. (poetic, archaic) desire

   Synonym: desiderio

Related terms

• desio
• desirare

References

• desire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

desire

1. desire

Descendants

• English: desire

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ts/

Noun

guts

1. plural of gut

Noun

guts pl (plural only)

1. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

   Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera

2. (by extension, informal) Courage; determination.

   Synonyms: pluck, (vulgar) balls, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage

3. (informal) Content, substance.

4. (informal) The essential, core parts.

5. (informal) One's innermost feelings.

6. (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
7. (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.

Translations

Verb

guts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut

Verb

guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)

1. (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
2. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

   He gutsed out a 6-1 win.

Anagrams

• Gust, gust, tugs

Danish

Noun

guts c

1. indefinite genitive singular of gut

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

guts f or m (plural gutsen, diminutive gutsje n)

1. gouge, a suddenly flowing quantity of fluid
2. a chisel type with a hollow beak

Verb

guts

1. first-person singular present indicative of gutsen
2. imperative of gutsen

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• stug