different between guts vs corporation

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

English

Etymology

From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

   Synonym: paunch

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

     'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:

     He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,^[2]

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Derived terms

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• corporation tax

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): public limited company (UK)

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild