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# bowel

«bowel» in Mova's school dictionary: **The long tube in the body below the stomach, also called…** — 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 (a bowel, bowels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The long tube in the body below the stomach, also called the intestines, where food is digested and waste is formed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m1)

2) (bowels) The inside of the body's gut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m2)

3) The bowels of something: the deepest inside part: the bowels of the earth, the bowels of the ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons the bowel is part of the digestive system; doctors ask about "bowel movements" (a polite word for going to the toilet for a poo). In stories "the bowels of the ship" means deep down inside it. Phrases: bowel movement, the bowels of, large bowel, small bowel.

### examples

- Food passes from the stomach into the bowel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x1)
- The doctor asked if his bowels were working normally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x2)
- Fibre helps keep your bowels healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x3)
- The engine room was deep in the bowels of the ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x4)
- The miners went down into the bowels of the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x5)
- The large bowel absorbs water from waste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x6)
- Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/#x7)

### note

Often plural: bowels. "Bowel movement" is the polite, medical way to talk about pooing. Do not confuse with "bowl" (a dish) or "vowel" (a letter like a, e, i, o, u).

### In the corpora

- ["Number two" means a poo, emptying the bowels; children and parents use it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/17/)
- ["Bowel movement" is the doctor's word for a poo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/12/)
- [My bowels, my bowels!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.117/)
- [Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.511/)
- [and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.216/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bowel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.