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# intestine

«intestine» in Mova's school dictionary: **the long tubes in your belly that food passes through…** — 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 (an intestine, intestines; the intestines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The intestines are the long tubes in your belly that food passes through after the stomach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#m1)

2) The small intestine takes the useful parts of food into the blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#m2)

3) The large intestine takes in water and pushes out waste as poo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the human body and the digestive system, food goes mouth → oesophagus (food pipe) → stomach → small intestine → large intestine. The small intestine is long, around 6 metres in an adult, folded up inside you. Animals have intestines too. Words: gut, bowel, digestion.

### examples

- Food goes from your stomach into your small intestine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x1)
- The small intestine is longer than the large intestine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x2)
- The large intestine soaks up water from waste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x3)
- Your intestines are coiled up inside your belly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x4)
- We drew the digestive system with the intestines in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x5)
- Fibre in fruit and vegetables helps your intestines work well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x6)
- A cow has very long intestines to digest grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x7)
- The doctor said the pain was in his intestine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#x8)

### note

Usually plural: the intestines. «Small» and «large» are about width, not length: the small intestine is narrower but much longer. «Gut» and «bowel» are everyday words for intestines. Spelled -ine, said «in-TES-tin».

### In the corpora

- [The large intestine soaks up water and salts from what is left, and its bacteria break down some of the fibre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/13/)
- [Swallowed chewing gum does not stick your intestines (your guts) together; it passes through in a day or two.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/9/)
- [Most digested food passes into the blood in the small intestine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/12/)
- [The small intestine of an adult is about six metres (about 20 feet) long.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/13/)
- [The large intestine takes water back from what is left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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