different between vitals vs guts

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?t?lz/

Noun

vitals pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
2. (plural only, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
3. (medicine, plural only) Vital signs.

Quotations

• 1827 Ann Hasseltine Judson - An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire

  they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out

• 2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918

  This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces.

• 1991 Suzy Szasz - Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy

  At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals

Derived terms

• stap my vitals

Anagrams

• vistal

Catalan

Adjective

vitals

1. plural of vital

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