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# stomach

«stomach» in Mova's school dictionary: **the bag-like organ inside your body where food goes after…** — 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 stomach, stomachs); verb (can't stomach something — can't bear it)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your stomach is the bag-like organ inside your body where food goes after you swallow it and starts to be broken down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#m1)

2) People also use «stomach» for the front of the body below the chest (the tummy or belly). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#m2)

3) If you can't stomach something, you can't bear it or eat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science the stomach is part of the digestive system: food goes down the food pipe to the stomach, where strong acid and muscles mash it, then on to the intestines. In health lessons: a stomach ache can come from eating too much, germs or worry; «butterflies in your stomach» is the nervous feeling before something big. Phrases: stomach ache, an upset stomach, on an empty stomach, butterflies in my stomach, lie on your stomach.

### examples

- My stomach hurts because I ate too much cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x1)
- Food goes from your mouth to your stomach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x2)
- I have butterflies in my stomach before the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x3)
- Don't swim straight after a big meal on a full stomach if you feel unwell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x4)
- The doctor pressed on my stomach to check it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x5)
- Lie on your stomach to do this stretch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x6)
- My stomach is rumbling; it must be lunchtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x7)
- Your stomach makes acid to help break down food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x8)
- His stomach seemed a bottomless pit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stomach/#x9)

### note

Spelling trap: stomach ends in «-ach» but sounds like «STUM-uk». Plural: stomachs. «Tummy» is the children's word; «belly» is informal. Myth: the old rule that you must wait an hour after eating before swimming is not proven, but big cramps or feeling sick are reasons to rest.

### In the corpora

- [A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/)
- [Fizzy drinks are full of carbon dioxide gas, which collects in the stomach and comes back up as a burp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/67-digestion-the-journey-of-a-sandwich/15/)
- [A cow's stomach has four parts, and it chews its food twice, bringing it back up as cud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/13/)
- [Sea turtles eat jellyfish, and floating plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles sometimes swallow plastic, which can block their stomachs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/12/)
- [Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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