liver
part of speech
noun (a liver, livers; liver — uncountable as food)
meaning for a pupil
1) The liver is a large organ in your body, under your ribs on the right, that cleans the blood, stores energy and helps digest food. tree →
2) Liver is the liver of an animal eaten as food. tree →
3) A liver (rare) is a person who lives in a certain way: «a clean liver». tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons about the human body, the liver is the largest organ inside the body; it removes harmful things from the blood, makes bile to help digest fat, and stores sugar for energy. In everyday life some people eat liver and onions or liver pâté. Phrases: «liver and onions», «liver disease», «chicken liver».
examples
- The liver is under your right ribs. tree →
- Your liver cleans your blood. tree →
- The liver makes bile to help digest fat. tree →
- Grandpa likes liver and onions for dinner. tree →
- The liver is the biggest organ inside the body. tree →
- Too much alcohol can damage the liver. tree →
- We dissected a sheep's liver in science. tree →
- The liver stores energy from food. tree →
note
Countable for the organ (a liver); uncountable for the food (some liver). Pronounced LIV-er (like «live» in «I live here»). The skin, not the liver, is the largest organ overall; the liver is the largest inside the body.
In the corpora
- Too much paracetamol can seriously damage the liver, even if you feel fine at first.
- Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets.
- Too much vitamin A can be harmful, so cod-liver oil should not be doubled up with other vitamin A supplements.
- The liver makes bile, which helps to digest fat.
- Your liver and kidneys remove waste from your body every day; detox teas don't have good evidence behind them.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «liver» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.