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# intestine

noun (an intestine, intestines; the intestines)

«intestine» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The intestines are the long tubes in your belly that food passes through after the stomach. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/#m3)

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

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah links the letter Nun with Scorpio, Marcheshvan and the intestines. Each letter is assigned a month, a sign and an organ. In the primary 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

- Postellus then gives, " intestina, vesica, arterise ", the intestines, bladder and arteries; Rittangelius gives the same. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intestine/#x1)
- He produced Nun, predominant in smell, crowned, combined, and formed Scorpio in the world, Marchesvan in the year, and the intestines in man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intestine/#x2)
- The twelve organs of the human body are: two hands, two feet, two kidneys, gall, small intestines, liver, gullet \[39\] or esophagus, stomach and milt. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intestine/#x3)

### 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».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «intestine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intestine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «intestine» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intestine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«intestine» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/intestine.html) on Mova free.