different between stomach vs corporation

English

Alternative forms

• stomack (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stómakhos), from ????? (stóma, “mouth”).

Displaced native Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach”); largely displaced Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e (“stomach, maw”) from Old English maga (“stomach, maw”). More at bucket and maw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?m?k/

Noun

stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)

1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
2. (informal) The belly.

   Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, (obsolete) bouk, gut, guts, (archaic) maw

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:

     He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;

   • This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

4. (obsolete) Appetite.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:

     You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,^[1]

     HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?

     EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.

   • , II.ii.1.2:

     If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

5. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

Derived terms

Related terms

• stomachic
• stomachal

Translations

Verb

stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)

1. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?

3. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:

     O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

Synonyms

• (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to be angry):
• (to resent): See also Thesaurus:dislike

Derived terms

• stomachable
• unstomachable

Translations

Anagrams

• Satchmo

Middle English

Noun

stomach

1. Alternative form of stomak

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