stomach
part of speech
noun (a stomach, stomachs); verb (can't stomach something — can't bear it)
meaning for a pupil
1) Your stomach is the bag-like organ inside your body where food goes after you swallow it and starts to be broken down. tree →
2) People also use «stomach» for the front of the body below the chest (the tummy or belly). tree →
3) If you can't stomach something, you can't bear it or eat it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Sefer Yetzirah gives each Hebrew letter a month, a zodiac sign and a body part. Samech goes with Kislev, Sagittarius and the stomach, and the stomach is linked with sleep. In Isaiah a "stomacher" is a fine, rich breast-garment, which will be replaced by sackcloth. Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah links the stomach with sleep. Isaiah's list is read as a warning that the proud pleasures of the rich women of Jerusalem will be lost. In the primary lessons: In science the stomach is part of the digestive system: food goes down the food pipe to the stomach, where strong acid and muscles mash it, then on to the intestines. In health lessons: a stomach ache can come from eating too much, germs or worry; «butterflies in your stomach» is the nervous feeling before something big. Phrases: stomach ache, an upset stomach, on an empty stomach, butterflies in my stomach, lie on your stomach.
examples
- He produced Samech, predominant in sleep, crowned, combined, and formed Sagittarius in the world, Kislev in the year, and the stomach of 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 →
- He produced Samech, predominant in Sleep, crowned it, combined and formed with it Sagittarius in the Universe, Kislev in the Year, and the stomach of Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle rags; and instead of curled hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. (Prophets ISA.3.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- My stomach hurts because I ate too much cake. tree →
- Food goes from your mouth to your stomach. tree →
- I have butterflies in my stomach before the race. tree →
- Don't swim straight after a big meal on a full stomach if you feel unwell. tree →
- The doctor pressed on my stomach to check it. tree →
- Lie on your stomach to do this stretch. tree →
- My stomach is rumbling; it must be lunchtime. tree →
- Your stomach makes acid to help break down food. tree →
- His stomach seemed a bottomless pit. tree →
note
Spelling trap: stomach ends in «-ach» but sounds like «STUM-uk». Plural: stomachs. «Tummy» is the children's word; «belly» is informal. Myth: the old rule that you must wait an hour after eating before swimming is not proven, but big cramps or feeling sick are reasons to rest.
In the corpora
- A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
- Fizzy drinks are full of carbon dioxide gas, which collects in the stomach and comes back up as a burp.
- A cow's stomach has four parts, and it chews its food twice, bringing it back up as cud.
- Sea turtles eat jellyfish, and floating plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles sometimes swallow plastic, which can block their stomachs.
- Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stomach» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.