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Definition: Bowel |
BowelNoun1. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bowel" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
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Health | The long tube-shaped organ in the abdomen that completes the process of digestion. There is both a small and a large bowel. Also called the intestine. (references) |
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Synonyms: BowelSynonyms: gut (n), intestine (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Keen of eye, swift of thought, and regular of bowel. (The Thin Blue Line; writing credit: Ben Elton) Someone has sent me a bowel movement (Pink Flamingos; writing credit: John Waters) If we can stimulate that nerve, the bowel will convulse, expelling the entire worm society (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Try ten days without a bowel movement sometime (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro) How can a man take a bowel movment with a hundred buffalo rifles a pointen at em (1941; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Clever | The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead. (He was a lawyer before.) (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing bowel resection for a colon cancer and a temporary colostomy. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the vault like the rumbling of this titanic bowel. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Loose bowel movements. (references) | |
This liquid flushes out the bowel. (references) | ||
Avoid straining when moving your bowel. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic. G.J. T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot." |
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| "Bowel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Bowel" is used about 1,228 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.84% | 1,226 | 6,365 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,228 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bowel": Bowel habit changes ♦ bowel movement ♦ Bowel Prep ♦ have had a bowel movement ♦ Inflammatory Bowel Disease ♦ Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ♦ Irritable Bowel Syndrome ♦ Short Bowel Syndrome ♦ Small Bowel Enema. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bowel": bowel-emptying, bowel-loosening, bowel-looseningly, bowel-opening, bowel-quaking, bowel-regulating, bowel-related, bowel-wall. | |
Ending with "bowel": liver-bowel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bowel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zorrë (casing, catgut, entrails, gut, hose, intestine), nxjerr zorrat. (various references) | |
Arabic | أمعاء (bowels, entrails, gut, intestines, tripe, viscera), أحشاء (bowels, entrails, gizzard, guts, innards, viscera). (various references) | |
Basque | heste (intestine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изкормя. (various references) | |
Czech | střevo (gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Danish | bakterieflora i fordøjelseskanalen (bowel flora), tarmflora (bowel flora, flora of the intestine, intestinal flora), syntetisk tarm (synthetic bowel), renlighed (bowel control in children, clean stage), normal tarmflora (bowel flora), nedsat mave-tarmfunktion (decreased bowel activity and digestive juices), colonindhældning (small bowel transit time with barium, small intestinal transit time with barium). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermindering van de werking van de tractus digestivus (decreased bowel activity and digestive juices), slingerziekte (bowel oedema, gut oedema), kunstdarm (artificial gut, sausage casing, synthetic bowel), intestinale flora (bowel flora, flora of the intestine, intestinal flora), dunnedarmonderzoek met behulp van bariumcontrastpap (small bowel transit time with barium, small intestinal transit time with barium), darmvervangend omhulsel (synthetic bowel). (various references) | |
Farsi | اندرون (Viscus), روده (Garbage, Gut), شکم (Abdomen, Belly, Breadbasket, Bulge, Gorge, Gut, Kyte, Paunch, Tummy, Ventricle, Womb). (various references) | |
Finnish | suoli (gut, intestine). (various references) | |
French | intestin. (various references) | |
German | eingeweide (bowels, entrails, gut, guts, innards, inside, intestines, viscera), darm (gut, intestinal, intestine, skin). (various references) | |
Greek | έντερο (gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעי (gut, ileum, intestine), כרוכ" (gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bél (gut, intestine, kernel, pith, pulp, skin, tharm). (various references) | |
Indonesian | usus (gut), isi perut (entrails). (various references) | |
Italian | budello (alley, gut, hose, intestine), intestino (internecine, intestine, largeintestine, small intestine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 渋る (to be reluctant, to have loose painful bowel movement, to hesitate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しぶりばら (bowel pains, painful loose bowels), しぶる (to be reluctant, to have loose painful bowel movement, to hesitate), べ"つう (bowel movement), べ"い (bowel-movement, call of nature, convenient clothes, ordinary clothes), りょうべ" (urination and bowel movement), 'けつ (bloody bowel discharge), ちょうのびょうき (bowel disease), っぷ" (a bowel movement). (various references) | |
Korean | 창자 (Bowels, gut). (various references) | |
Manx | putageyn, minnagh (entrails, gut, intestine, pith, viscera). (various references) | |
Occitan | budèl (intestine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owelbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tripa (gut, intestine), intestino (bowels, gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Romanian | mãruntaie (depths, entrails, giblets, innards, inside, offal, tripe, viscera, womb), intestine (bowels, entrails), inimã (bosom, breast, center, centre, character, conscience, core, heart, hearts, life, mind, soul, thick, ticker). (various references) | |
Russian | кишка (gut, hose). (various references) | |
Scottish | inne (a bowel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | utroba (belly, insides, intestines, viscera, womb), drob (entrails, offal, pluck), crevo (hose, intestine). (various references) | |
Spanish | intestino (domestic, gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Swedish | tarm (gut, intestine). (various references) | |
Thai | ลำไส้ (bowels). (various references) | |
Turkish | bağırsak (bowels, enteric, enteron, gastral, gut, ileo-, intestinal, intestine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | травний тракт, кишка (gut), нутрощі (entrails, guts, innards, inside, viscera), надра (bosom, entrails, subsoil). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lòng trắc ẩn (compassion, compassionateness, ruth). (various references) | |
Welsh | coluddyn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flora gastrointestinalis. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | botellus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bowel": boweled, boweling, bowelled, bowelless, bowelling, bowels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bowel": disbowel, disembowel, embowel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bowel": disboweled, disboweling, disbowelled, disbowelling, disbowels, disemboweled, disemboweling, disembowelled, disembowelling, disembowelment, disembowelments, disembowels, emboweled, emboweling, embowelled, embowelling, embowels. (additional references) | |
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"Bowel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blodwell, Bodel, Bodele, Boell, boelo, boewl, bogel, Bolwell, Bonello, Borel, boswel, botel, Botelho, bovel, Bovell, bowe, bowela, bowell, Bowet, bowic, bowle, bowly, bowwab, Boxell, Boxwell, Bozell, Bromwell, Budel, Bunwell, bwe, cowel, fowel, lowel, Obel, oswel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bowel" (pronounced bou"ul) |
| 3 | -ou" u l | dowel, towel, vowel. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: below, elbow. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o-w" | |
-1 letter: blew, blow, bole, bowl, lobe, lowe. | |
-2 letters: bel, bow, lob, low, obe, ole, owe, owl, web, woe. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o-w" | |
+1 letter: behowl, bellow, belows, blowed, blower, bowels, bowled, bowleg, bowler, elbows, wobble. | |
+2 letters: beclown, behowls, bellows, blowers, blowier, blowsed, blowzed, boweled, bowlder, bowlegs, bowlers, bowless, bowlike, bowline, cowbell, dowable, elbowed, embowel, lowbred, ownable, rowable, sowable, teabowl, wobbled, wobbler, wobbles. | |
+3 letters: avowable, beclowns, beflower, behowled, bellowed, bellower, bellwort, bestowal, billowed, blowhole, blowiest, blowpipe, blowsier, blowtube, blowzier, bluewood, boweling, bowelled, bowlders, bowlines, bowllike, browless, cowbells, disbowel, dowsabel, elbowing, embowels, furbelow, growable, knowable, overblew, overblow, plowable, showable, snowbell, snowbelt, sowbelly, stowable, teabowls, wellborn, wobblers, wobblier, wobblies, womblike, workable. | |
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