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belly
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As a noun, belly means the abdomen, especially a fat one. As a verb, it means position one’s belly.
Meanings of belly
14 meaningsnoun
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
“You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
The stomach.
“My belly was full of wine.”
The womb.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
“the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship”
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
architectureThe hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
A part that bulges deeply
“the belly of a sail”
The hollow inside of somethinglocation
“in the belly of the ship”
The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fishanimal
verb
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).