Nerve
[nɜːv] or [nɝv]
Definition
(noun.) any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.
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Definition
(n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
(n.) A sinew or a tendon.
(n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
(n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
(n.) Audacity; assurance.
(n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
(n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
(v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Strength, power, force.[2]. Courage, pluck, fortitude, firmness, resolution, hardihood, manhood.
v. a. Strengthen, invigorate, fortify, brace.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strength, firmness, resolution
ANT:Nerveless, forceless, feeble, weak, enfeebled, impotent, palsied,[SeeCOURAGE]
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Definition
n. bodily strength firmness courage: (anat.) one of the fibres which convey sensation from all parts of the body to the brain: (bot.) one of the fibres or ribs in the leaves of plants: a trade term for a non-porous quality of cork slightly charred: (pl.) hysterical nervousness.—v.t. to give strength or vigour to: to arm with force.—adj. Nerv′al.—ns. Nervā′tion the arrangement or distribution of nerves esp. those of leaves; Nerve′-cell any cell forming part of the nervous system esp. one of those by means of which nerve-fibres are connected with each other; Nerve′-cen′tre a collection of nerve-cells from which nerves branch out.—adj. Nerved furnished with nerves or with nerves of a special character as 'strong-nerved.'—n. Nerve′-fī′bre one of the essential thread-like units of which a nerve is composed.—adj. Nerve′less without strength.—n. Nerve′lessness.—adj. Nerv′ine acting on the nerves: quieting nervous excitement.—n. a medicine that soothes nervous excitement.—adjs. Nerv′ous having nerve: sinewy: strong vigorous showing strength and vigour: pertaining to the nerves: having the nerves easily excited or weak; Nerv′ous Nervose′ Nerved (bot.) having parallel fibres or veins.—adv. Nerv′ously.—n. Nerv′ousness.—adj. Nerv′ūlar.—ns. Nerv′ūle a small nerve a small vein of an insect's wing—also Nervulet Veinlet Venule; Nerv′ure one of the nerves or veins of leaves: one of the horny tubes or divisions which expand the wings of insects: one of the ribs in a groined vault: a projecting moulding.—adj. Nerv′y strong vigorous.—Nervous system (anat.) the brain spinal cord and nerves collectively: the whole of the nerves and nerve-centres of the body considered as related to each other and fitted to act together.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Breaking the hair-brush on the disobedient scion, then making him pay for a new one. See revised version, 'Spare the rod and spoil the hair-brush!'
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Examples
- An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My eyes were bloodshot, starting from my head; every artery beat, methought, audibly, every muscle throbbed, each single nerve felt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion, he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The nerve fibers of the eye which carry the sensation of color to the brain are particularly sensitive to the primary colors--red, green, blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Did not the recollection of the heroic simplicity of the Homeric life nerve you up? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To have a perfectly balanced ball, one that will roll true in every direction, the ball must be so turned out of the tusk that the nerve center runs exactly through the middle of the ball. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had something to tell: he was going to tell me that something: my ear strained its nerve to hear it, and I had made the confidence impossible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Your nerves are all on edge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And as she swung her head, her fine mane of hair just swept his face, and all his nerves were on fire, as with a subtle friction of electricity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Oh, those dreadful nerves! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I either _could_ not, or _would_ not speak--I am not sure which: partlyI think, my nerves had got wrong, and partly my humour was crossed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My nerves were not strong enough to bear it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Well, that's not so bad, considering your nerves had to be spared. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Was the one with the bad nerves and the strange name from there? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her slight frame became nerved; her distinguished face quickened with scorn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nerved by the courage of desperation, she opened the door. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We nerved ourselves to the task: in the midst of despair we performed the tasks of hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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