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gut

(gŭt)
n.
1.
a. The digestive tract or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.
b. The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.
c. guts The bowels or entrails; viscera.
2. Slang
a. Innermost emotional or visceral response: She felt in her gut that he was guilty.
b. guts The inner or essential parts: "The best part of a good car ... is its guts" (Leigh Allison Wilson).
3. guts Slang Courage; fortitude: It takes guts to be a rock climber.
4. Slang A gut course.
5.
a. Thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.
b. Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.
6. A narrow passage or channel.
7. Sports
a. The central, lengthwise portion of a playing area.
b. The players occupying this space: The fullback ran up the gut of the defense.
tr.v. gut·ted, gut·ting, guts
1. To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.
2. To extract essential or major parts of: gut a manuscript.
3. To destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the house.
4. To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of: A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
adj. Slang
Arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral: "Conservationism is a gut issue in the West" (Saturday Review).
Idiom:
gut it out Slang
To show pluck and perseverance in the face of opposition or adversity.
[From Middle English guttes, entrails, from Old English guttas; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]
gut′ty adj.

GUT

abbr.
grand unified theory
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Noun 1. [画像:guts - fortitude and determination]guts - fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
fortitude - strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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Translations
أحْشاءشَجاعَه
odvahavnitřnosti
gåpåmodindvoldemod
אומץ ביציםמעיים
bélbelsõségekmersz
hugrekkiinnyfli
pogum
cesaret iç organlaryüreklilik

gut

(gat) noun
1. the tube in the lower part of the body through which food passes. derm القناة الهَضْمِيَّه، مَعْي черво intestino střevo die Gedärme (pl.) tarm έντερο intestino, tripa sool(ikas) روده suoli intestin קרביים अंतड़ी crijevo bél usus þarmur, görn intestino 腸 소화관 žarna zarna usus darmkanaal tarm jelito كولمه، نرۍ لار، ابنا، مجرا ( په جمع كى ) لرى او كولمۍ intestino intestin кишка črevo črevo utroba tarm ไส้พุง bağırsak 腸子 кишка بڑی آنت ruột 肠子
2. a strong thread made from the gut of an animal, used for violin strings etc. dermsnaar مُصْران لِصُنْع الأوتار الموسيقيَّه кетгут за струни corda struna (vyrobená ze střeva) der Darm streng χορδή από έντερο cuerda de tripa soolkeel زه suolilanka boyau גיד आहार नली struna bélhúr tali terbuat dari usus girni corda, minugia 腸線 (특히 동물의) 내장 styga stīga gat snaar tarmstreng, katgut struna زه corda coardă (pentru vioară etc.) струна (preparované) črevo; struna struna žice za violinu tarmsträng, katgut เส้นใยที่เหนียวทํามาจากไส้ในของสัตว์ çalgı teli 腸線 струна з кишки تانت جو سازوں میں لگایا جاتا ہے dây ruột mèo 肠线
verb – past tense, past participle ˈgutted –
1. to take the guts out of. Her job was to gut fish. vlek, ingewande uithaal يُخْرِج أحْشاء، يُنَظِّف изкормвам estripar vykuchat ausweiden tage indvoldene ud; rense ξεκοιλιάζω destripar soolikaid rookima دل و روده درآوردن perata vider לְהוֹצִיא אֶת הקרָבַיִים आंत निकालना izvaditi utrobu kibelez membersihkan perut slægja sventrare はらわたを抜く 내장을 뽑아내다 išskrosti, išdaryti izņemt iekšas; ķidāt menyiang ingewanden uithalen rense, sløye patroszyć د دندي په بهير كي estripar a curăţa (un animal) de intestine потрошить vypitvať očistiti, izprazniti vaditi creva rensa, ta ur ควักไส้ในออก içini çıkarmak 取出...的內臟 патрати; потрошити مچھلی کے پیٹ کی آلائش صاف کرنا moi ruột 取出(鱼等)的内脏
2. to destroy completely, except for the outer frame. The fire gutted the house. uitbrand يُتْلِف унищожавам всичко освен стените destruir zničit vnitřek ausbrennen brænde ud καταστρέφω destruir el interior de laastama تخریب شدن درون ساختمان tuhota ne laisser que la carcasse (de) לַהֲרוֹס אֶת תוֹכוֹ पूरी तरह नष्ट करना potpuno uništiti kiéget memusnahkan eyðileggja að innan distruggere 内部を破壊する 송두리째 파괴하다 sunaikinti, sudeginti (ko) vidų izpostīt; izdegt (ugunsgrēkā) memusnahkan uitbranden brenne ut, ødelegge innvendig wypalić د وداني منځني برخه خراپيدل destruir a devasta (pe dinăuntru) опустошать vypáliť uničiti do ogrodja uništiti blåsa ur ล้างผลาญ tahrip etmek 完全摧毀(只剩外殼) спустошувати اندرونی تنصیبات کو جلا دینا، تباہ کر دینا phá huỷ 毁坏(建筑物等)的内部
guts noun plural
1. the gut, liver, kidneys etc. derms أحْشاء вътрешности vísceras vnitřnosti die Eingeweide (pl.) indvolde εντόσθια vísceras, entrañas sisikond دل و روده sisälmykset entrailles קרביים यकृत, जिगर iznutrice belsőségek jeroan innyfli frattaglie 内臓 장(腸) viduriai, vidaus organai iekšas; iekšējie orgāni isi perut ingewanden innvoller, tarmer wnętrzności كولمه، نرۍ لار، ابنا، مجرا ( په جمع كى ) لرى او كولمۍ vísceras măruntaie кишки vnútornosti drobovje utroba inälvor ตับไตไส้พุง iç organlar 內臟 нутрощі بڑي آنت، جگر، گردے وغیرہ cái bụng 内脏
2. courage. He's got a lot of guts. fut, durf شَجاعَه кураж coragem odvaha der Schneid mod; gåpåmod θάρρος, κότσια agallas tahtejõud دل و جرأت rohkeus cran אומץ साहस hrabrost, odvažnost energia, mersz keberanian hugrekki coraggio 根性 용기 drąsa, valios stiprybė drosme; vīrišķība keberanian lef, moed mot, ryggrad odwaga همت، زړور توب، مېړانه coragem curaj сила воли odvaha pogum hrabrost kurage ความกล้า cesaret, yüreklilik 勇氣 мужність, витримка ہمت sự can đảm 勇气
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"Smash 'im, Jimmie, kick deh damn guts out of 'im," yelled Pete, the lad with the chronic sneer, in tones of delight.
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And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.
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They feed upon raw cow's flesh; when they kill a cow, they keep the blood to rub their bodies with, and wear the guts about their necks for ornaments, which they afterwards give to their wives.
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And now a matter of some difficulty arose; and this was how his lordship himself should be conveyed; for though in stage-coaches, where passengers are properly considered as so much luggage, the ingenious coachman stows half a dozen with perfect ease into the place of four; for well he contrives that the fat hostess, or well-fed alderman, may take up no more room than the slim miss, or taper master; it being the nature of guts, when well squeezed, to give way, and to lie in a narrow compass; yet in these vehicles, which are called, for distinction's sake, gentlemen's coaches, though they are often larger than the others, this method of packing is never attempted.
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He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
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To one of them, a brand-new, well-bound one, they gave such a stroke that they knocked the guts out of it and scattered the leaves about.
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"The 'movers.' They lease, clean out and gut a place in several years, and then move on.
I love the soil, yet tomorrow, things being as they are and if I were poor, I'd gut five hundred acres in order to buy twenty-five for myself.
He strung his bow with tendons from the buck upon which he had dined his first evening upon the new shore, and though he would have preferred the gut of Sheeta for the purpose, he was content to wait until opportunity permitted him to kill one of the great cats.
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The instruments were of skeel, the string of gut, and were shaped to fit the left forearm of the dancer, to which it was strapped.
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During our flight from Phutra I had restrung my bow with a piece of heavy gut taken from a huge tiger which Ghak and I had worried and finally dispatched with arrows, spear, and sword.
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There were men to cut it, and men to split it, and men to gut it and scrape it clean inside.
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