intestine

«intestine» in Mova's judaism dictionary: the long tubes in your belly that food passes through… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an intestine, intestines; the intestines)

meaning for a pupil

1) The intestines are the long tubes in your belly that food passes through after the stomach. tree →

2) The small intestine takes the useful parts of food into the blood. tree →

3) The large intestine takes in water and pushes out waste as poo. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah links the letter Nun with Scorpio, Marcheshvan and the intestines. Each letter is assigned a month, a sign and an organ. In the primary lessons: In science lessons about the human body and the digestive system, food goes mouth → oesophagus (food pipe) → stomach → small intestine → large intestine. The small intestine is long, around 6 metres in an adult, folded up inside you. Animals have intestines too. Words: gut, bowel, digestion.

examples

• Postellus then gives, " intestina, vesica, arterise ", the intestines, bladder and arteries; Rittangelius gives the same. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• He produced Nun, predominant in smell, crowned, combined, and formed Scorpio in the world, Marchesvan in the year, and the intestines in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
• The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet [39] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• Food goes from your stomach into your small intestine. tree →
• The small intestine is longer than the large intestine. tree →
• The large intestine soaks up water from waste. tree →
• Your intestines are coiled up inside your belly. tree →
• We drew the digestive system with the intestines in it. tree →
• Fibre in fruit and vegetables helps your intestines work well. tree →
• A cow has very long intestines to digest grass. tree →
• The doctor said the pain was in his intestine. tree →

note

Usually plural: the intestines. «Small» and «large» are about width, not length: the small intestine is narrower but much longer. «Gut» and «bowel» are everyday words for intestines. Spelled -ine, said «in-TES-tin».

In the corpora

• The large intestine soaks up water and salts from what is left, and its bacteria break down some of the fibre.
• Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) together; it passes through in a day or two.
• Most digested food passes into the blood in the small intestine.
• The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long.
• The large intestine takes water back from what is left.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «intestine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.