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Definition of Stomach
1. Verb. Bear to eat. "He cannot stomach raw fish"
2. Noun. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion.
Specialized synonyms: Craw, Crop, First Stomach, Rumen, Reticulum, Second Stomach, Omasum, Psalterium, Third Stomach, Abomasum, Fourth Stomach
Generic synonyms: Internal Organ, Viscus
Terms within: Arteria Gastrica, Gastric Artery, Gastric Vein, Vena Gastrica, Gastroepiploic Vein, Gastroomental Vein, Vena Gastroomentalis, Epigastric Fossa, Pit Of The Stomach
Group relationships: Alimentary Canal, Alimentary Tract, Digestive Tract, Digestive Tube, Gastrointestinal Tract, Gi Tract
Derivative terms: Stomachic
3. Verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. "Sam cannot stomach Sue "; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
Specialized synonyms: Accept, Live With, Swallow, Hold Still For, Stand For, Bear Up, Take Lying Down, Take A Joke, Sit Out, Pay
Generic synonyms: Allow, Countenance, Let, Permit
Related verbs: Suffer
Derivative terms: Abidance, Bearable, Endurance, Sufferance, Tolerance, Tolerant, Tolerant, Toleration
4. Noun. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
Generic synonyms: Body Part
Terms within: Abdominal Aorta, Arteria Colica, Colic Artery, Hypochondrium, Bowel, Gut, Intestine, Belly Button, Bellybutton, Navel, Omphalos, Omphalus, Umbilicus, Ab, Abdominal, Abdominal Muscle, Abdomen, Abdominal Cavity, Abdominal Wall
Group relationships: Body, Torso, Trunk
Specialized synonyms: Underbelly, Underbody
Derivative terms: Abdominal, Stomachal, Ventral
5. Noun. An inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness. "He had no stomach for a fight"
6. Noun. An appetite for food. "Exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner"
Definition of Stomach
1. n. An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
2. v. t. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
3. v. i. To be angry.
Definition of Stomach
1. Noun. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) The belly. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) Appetite. ¹
5. Noun. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract). ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To be able to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to be able to stand or handle something. ¹
7. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To be angry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stomach
1. to tolerate [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: tolerate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stomach
Literary usage of Stomach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Absorption from the stomach.— The amount of absorption that takes place from the
stomach is surprisingly small. Water is practically not absorbed at all, ..."
2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"The muscular mechanisms by means of which the stomach is charged with food and
in turn discharged, small portions at a time, into the duodenum have been ..."
3. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"THE CONTRACTIONS OF THE EMPTY stomach INHIBITED REFLEXLY FROM THE MOUTH. BY AJ
CARLSON. [Pram the Hull Physiological Laboratory of the University of Chicago ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"The shape of the individual has much to do with the shape of his stomach, ...
Other factors which may cause variations in shape of the normal stomach are ..."
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