STOMACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stomach mean? 

• STOMACH (noun)
  The noun STOMACH has 4 senses:

1. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

2. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

3. an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness

4. an appetite for food

  Familiarity information: STOMACH used as a noun is uncommon.

• STOMACH (verb)
  The verb STOMACH has 2 senses:

1. bear to eat

2. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

  Familiarity information: STOMACH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOMACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy

Hypernyms ("stomach" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

Meronyms (parts of "stomach"):

arteria gastrica; gastric artery (the arteries that supply the walls of the stomach)

gastric vein; vena gastrica (one of several veins draining the stomach walls)

gastroepiploic vein; gastroomental vein; vena gastroomentalis (one of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach)

epigastric fossa; pit of the stomach (a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stomach"):

craw; crop (a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food)

first stomach; rumen (the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing)

reticulum; second stomach (the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

omasum; psalterium; third stomach (the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

abomasum; fourth stomach (the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place)

Holonyms ("stomach" is a part of...):

alimentary canal; alimentary tract; digestive tract; digestive tube; gastrointestinal tract; GI tract (tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination)

Derivation:

stomachic (relating to or involving the stomach)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter

Hypernyms ("stomach" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Meronyms (parts of "stomach"):

abdominal wall (a wall of the abdomen)

abdomen; abdominal cavity (the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm)

ab; abdominal; abdominal muscle (the muscles of the abdomen)

belly button; bellybutton; navel; omphalos; omphalus; umbilicus (a scar where the umbilical cord was attached)

bowel; gut; intestine (the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus)

hypochondrium (the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium)

arteria colica; colic artery (arteries that supply blood to the colon)

abdominal aorta (a branch of the descending aorta)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stomach"):

underbelly; underbody (the soft belly or underside of an animal's body)

Holonyms ("stomach" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Derivation:

stomachal (relating to or involving the stomach)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

he had no stomach for a fight

Hypernyms ("stomach" is a kind of...):

inclination (that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An appetite for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner

Hypernyms ("stomach" is a kind of...):

appetence; appetency; appetite (a feeling of craving something)

Derivation:

stomach (bear to eat)

• STOMACH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stomach    ... he / she / it stomachs   
Past simple: stomached   
Past participle: stomached   
-ing form: stomaching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bear to eat

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

He cannot stomach raw fish

Hypernyms (to "stomach" is one way to...):

digest (convert food into absorbable substances)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stomach (an appetite for food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate

Context example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Hypernyms (to "stomach" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stomach"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot stomach Sue

 Context examples 

Inflammation of the body fundic mucosa of the stomach.

(Autoimmune Gastritis, NCI Thesaurus)

This, the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following, eat nothing but bread and water.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At last down he went into her stomach.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Patients with Ménétrier disease may be at a higher risk of stomach cancer.

(Ménétrier disease, NCI Dictionary)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with the development of cancers of the liver and stomach as well as multiple myeloma.

(MIR25 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Stomach and nerves had gone to sleep.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The old stomach sickness clutched me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with the development of cancers of the liver, breast and stomach.

(MIR27A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A gastrointestinal stromal tumor arising from the stomach.

(Benign Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenocarcinoma that arises from and straddles the junction of the stomach and esophagus.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)