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Nerve

Definition: Nerve

Nerve

Noun

1. Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.

2. The courage to carry on: "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball".

3. Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty".

Verb

1. Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nerve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Nerve \Nerve\, noun. [from Old English expression nerfe, French nerf, from Latin expression nervus, akin to Greek sinew, nerve; compare to string, bowstring; perhaps akin to English needle. Compare to Neuralgia.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Nerve

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

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!" Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Medicine

A cordlike structure of nervous tissue that connects parts of the nervous system with other tissues of the body and conveys nervous impulses to, or away from, these tissues. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Nerve

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers or axons, which includes the glia that ensheath the axons in myelin.

Nerves are part of the peripheral nervous system. Afferent nerves convey sensory signals to the brain, for example from skin or organs, while efferent nerves conduct stimulatory signals from the brain to the muscles and glands.

These signals, sometimes called nerve impulses, are also known as action potentials: Rapidly traveling electrical waves, which begin typically in the cell body of a neuron and propagate rapidly down the axon to its tip or "terminus."

Nerves may contain fibers that all serve the same purpose; for example motor nerves, the axons of which all terminate on muscle fibers and stimulate contraction. Or they be mixed nerves.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nerve."

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Synonyms: Nerve

Synonyms: boldness (n), brass (n), cheek (n), face (n), heart (n), mettle (n), nervus (n), spunk (n), steel (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Nerve

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courage

Take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire, stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out; (persevere) a.

Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage.

Give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.

Exertion

Take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water; (resolution); move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.

Sensibility

Die of a rose in aromatic pain; touch to the quick; touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.

Strength

Stoutness; Adjective: lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.

Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Nerve

English words defined with "nerve": abducens nerve, abducent nerve, accessory nerve, acoustic nerve, auditory nervecubital nerveDepressor nerveeighth cranial nerve, eleventh cranial nervefacial nerve, fifth cranial nerve, free nerve endingglossopharyngeal nervemedullated nerve fiber, motor nerve, myelinated nerve fibernerve block anaesthesia, nerve block anesthesia, Nerve cell, nerve center, nerve centre, nerve compression, nerve deafness, nerve entrapment, nerve fiber, nerve fibre, nerve impulse, nerve pathway, Nerve stretching, nerve tract, ninth cranial nervePathetic nerve, pneumogastric nerveReflex nervesaphenous nerve, sensory nerve, seventh cranial nerve, sixth cranial nerve, Sympathetic nervetenth cranial nerve, trigeminal nerve, trochlear nerveulnar nervevagus nerve, vestibulocochlear nervewandering nerve. (references)
Specialty definitions using "nerve": Abducens Nerve Injury, abducens paralysis 2.sixth nerve paralysis, Accessory Nerve Diseases, afferent nerve, anterior ethmoidal nerve, atrophy of the optic nerve, Autonomic Nerve Block, avulsion of the optic nerveChorda Tympani Nerve, Cochlear Nerve, compression of the external popliteal nerveefferent nerve, excavation of papilla of optic nerveFacial Nerve Diseases, Facial Nerve Injuriesglossopalatine nerveHypoglossal Nerve Diseasesintermediate nerve of WrisbergLingual Nervemalacia of the optic nerve opticomalacia, Mandibular Nerve, Maxillary Nerve, Median Nerve, Musculocutaneous Nervenasal nerve, nasociliary nerve, Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue, nerve agent, Nerve Degeneration, Nerve Endings, Nerve Fibers, Nerve Fibers, Myelinated, Nerve Growth Factor, Nerve Growth Factors, Nerve Net, nerve of Luschka, Nerve Regeneration, Nerve Sheath Tumors, Nerve Transfer, neuritis of the optic nerveObturator Nerve, ophthalmic nerve, Optic Nerve Diseases, Optic nerve head, Optic Nerve Injuries, Optic Nerve NeoplasmsPeroneal Nerve, posterior ethmoidal nerveReceptor, Nerve Growth Factor, Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor, Recurrent Laryngeal Nervespheno-ethmoid nerve, Spinal Nerve Roots, supraorbital nerve, supratrochlear nerve, Sural NerveTibial Nerve, trifacial nerve, Trigeminal Nerve Diseases, Trochlear Nerve DiseasesUlnar Nerve Compression Syndromes, ulnar nerve groove syndromevagina of the optic nerve vaginae nervi optici, Vagus Nerve Diseases, Vestibular Nerve, Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseaseszygomatic nerve. (references)
Etymologies containing "nerve": Trinervate. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nerve" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Danish (nerve).

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Modern Usage: Nerve

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

The nerve of those Whos (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

You've got a lot of nerve. You knew I was crazy about her (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

I am in control of you arm nerve! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within thirty seconds (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Lyrics

Well, she finally got the nerve to file for divorce ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

God dont let me lose my nerve (Put Your Lights On; performing artist: Everlast)

I can't believe u had the nerve to say the things u said (Don't Wanna Try; performing artist: FRANKIE J)

Trying to get my nerve built up to be so strong (Come & Talk To Me; performing artist: Jodeci)

That's the nerve you struck in me that sent a signal (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada)

Clever

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

Twisted Nerve (1968)

I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Cold Nerve (1925)

A Man of Nerve (1925)

Plenty of Nerve (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nerve

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills (reference)

  • Experiments on the facial nerve A study of nerve action potentials in the cat (reference)

  • Fine Afferent Nerve Fibers and Pain (reference)

  • Molecular Basis of Axon Growth & Nerve Pattern Formation, Taniguchi Symposia on Brain Sciences (reference)

  • Nerve Axon (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Nerve

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Photo Album: Nerve

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Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the herpetic lesions on the palmar surface of the left ring finger. Living in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord, under stressful conditions, the herpes viruses migrate along the pathways of peripheral nerve distribution. Credit: CDC.

This is a photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum stained with Gentian violet. The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. Credit: CDC.

The crow's nest at Station Moclips - 215 feet above the ground Note spikes driven into tree - builders would drive spikes and go hand over hand Triangulation party of H. A. Seran According to Seran: "It took men of uncommon nerve to do this work.". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Opiate receptor activation of a nerve and blockage of the signal by naltrexone. Credit: NIAA.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 9, Bourges, France. : Interior of electric department, used to test muscle reaction in nerve damaged patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Guertin's nerve syrup. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

With superb nerve the operators stuck to their post. Credit: Library of Congress.

Speaking of nerve racking noises!. Credit: Library of Congress.

My deah! the nerve of him!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Nerve

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Henry David Thoreau

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Martin Tupper

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Nerve

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

We need something more than a fixed Law of Nature to settle which nerve shall carry it.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

His nerve seemed absolutely destroyed

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nerve

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Neuron -- a nerve cell in the brain. (references)

Surgery on the stomach or vagus nerve. (references)

No one knows why the nerve cells stop growing. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Metropolitan Manila is the country's nerve center of industrial and financial activity, transportation and communications, trade, and educational services. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

The Federal Government, which controls the National Police Force, has done little to arrest the deteriorating security situation in Lagos, the country's commercial nerve center, strengthening calls by many southern governors for state police forces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Nerve

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Friends and adversaries abroad were asking whether America had lost its nerve.

George W. Bush

2001-2005The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Nerve

"Nerve" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Nerve" is used about 1,312 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.55%1,2936,105
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.45%1980,337
                    Total100.00%1,312N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Nerve

Expressions using "nerve": abdominal nerve plexus Abducens Nerve Abducens Nerve Diseases Abducens Nerve Injury abducens paralysis 2.sixth nerve paralysis abducent nerve Accessory Nerve Accessory Nerve Diseases acoustic nerve afferent nerve alveolar dental nerve anterior crural nerve anterior ethmoidal nerve atrophy of the optic nerve auditory nerve Autonomic Nerve Block avulsion of the optic nerve cervical nerve Chorda Tympani Nerve coccygeal nerve Cochlear Nerve compression of the external popliteal nerve cranial nerve Cranial Nerve Diseases Cranial Nerve Injuries Cranial Nerve Neoplasms cubital nerve Depressor nerve efferent nerve eight cranial nerve eighth cranial nerve eleventh cranial nerve excavation of papilla of optic nerve Facial Nerve Facial Nerve Diseases Facial Nerve Injuries Femoral Nerve fifth cranial nerve first cranial nerve fourth cranial nerve free nerve ending glaucomatous excavation of papilla of optic nerve glossopalatine nerve Glossopharyngeal Nerve Glossopharyngeal Nerve Diseases have the nerve have the nerve to have the nerve to do Hypoglossal Nerve Hypoglossal Nerve Diseases inferior alveolar nerve intermediate nerve of Wrisberg Lingual Nerve lose one's nerve lumbar nerve malacia of the optic nerve opticomalacia man of nerve and sinew mandibular nerve Maxillary Nerve median nerve medullated nerve fiber motor nerve motor nerve fiber Musculocutaneous Nerve musculospiral nerve myelinated nerve fiber nasal nerve nasociliary nerve nerve agent Nerve Block nerve block anaesthesia nerve block anesthesia nerve cell nerve center nerve centre nerve compression Nerve Compression Syndromes nerve deafness Nerve Degeneration nerve end nerve ending Nerve Endings nerve entrapment nerve fiber Nerve Fibers nerve fibre nerve gas Nerve Growth Factor Nerve Growth Factors nerve impulse Nerve Net nerve of Luschka nerve oneself nerve oneself to do smth. Nerve pain nerve pathway nerve plexus nerve racked nerve racking Nerve Regeneration Nerve Sheath Tumors. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "nerve": nerve-blocker, nerve-breaking, nerve-canal, nerve-cell, nerve-cells, nerve-centre, nerve-centres, nerve-cluster, nerve-convulsing, nerve-cord, nerve-damaging, nerve-eating, nerve-end, nerve-ending, nerve-endings, nerve-ends, nerve-ends-shredded-into-mulch, nerve-fraying, nerve-frazzled, nerve-free, nerve-glove, nerve-grating, nerve-jangling, nerve-knot, nerve-muscle, nerve-nets, nerve-points, nerve-poisons, nerve-racked, nerve-racking, nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful trying, nerve-rackingly, nerve-rasping, nerve-ridden, nerve-root, Nerve-shaken, nerve-shattering, nerve-shatteringly, nerve-shredder, nerve-shredding, nerve-soothing, nerve-specific, nerve-stimulators, nerve-storming, nerve-strain, nerve-stretching, nerve-tearing, nerve-testing, nerve-tingling, nerve-tips, nerve-tree, nerve-wasting, nerve-wracked, nerve-wracking, nerve-wrecking.

Ending with "nerve": anti-nerve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nerve

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sciatic nerve

969

nerve pinch

60

pinched nerve

850

nerve disorder

58

nerve

645

nerve cell

56

siatic nerve

309

nerve pressure root

50

nerve damage

230

nerve conduction study

48

ulnar nerve

140

95.1 nerve

47

optic nerve

121

nerve magazine

45

vagus nerve

119

nerve disease

42

sciatic nerve pain

113

syatic nerve

42

had i if nerve only

100

ciatic nerve

41

sciatica nerve

97

nerve gas

39

nerve block

94

nerve compression syndrome

39

pinched nerve symptom

89

sciatic nerve treatment

38

trigeminal nerve

80

nerve pregnancy sciatic

35

had i if nerve only singer

80

nerve conduction test

34

nerve pain

79

pinched nerve in back

34

pinched nerve in neck

78

radial nerve

33

nerve agent

73

optic nerve sun glasses

33

cyatic nerve

64

pinched nerve treatment

31

pinched nerve neck

61

nerve regeneration

28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Nerve

Language Translations for "nerve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nerv, vullnet (pleasure, volition, willpower), tendosem (tighten), guxim (audacity, boldness, courage, dare, daring, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, forwardness, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, intrepidity, mettle, pluck, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valorous, valour), gjakftohtësi (aplomb, calmness, coolness, equanimity, impassibility, impassivity, moderation, order, phlegm, placidity, presence of mind, recollection, sangfroid, self control, self possession, serenity, unconcern), forcë (coercion, effect, emphasis, energy, force, intensity, might, mightiness, muscle, pith, potency, power, puissance, strain, strength, vigor, vigour, violence), energji (dash, drive, dynamism, energetics, energy, gumption, might, pepper, pith, power, push, steam, strenuousness, vigor, vigour, vim, young blood, zip). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هستيريا (hysteria, restlessness), ‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, great, grow stronger, harden, hefty, heighten, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, prop, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), ‏وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, sinew, snare, strain, string, tauten, tendon, tense, tension), ‏عصب الضرس, ‏عصب (bandage, bind, chord, sinew, swathe), ‏جرأة (boldness, bravery, courage, daring, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, pluck, stoutness, undauntedness), ‏العصب, ‏شجع (animate, cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, embolden, encourage, feed, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, invite, promote, root, spur, support), ‏شجاعة (assurance, brace, bravery, brawler, courage, fortitude, gut, guts, hardiness, heroism, manhood, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valour). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сухожилие (leader, ligament, sinew, string, tendon), самообладание (countenance, equanimity, grip, repose, restraint, self control, self possession, self-command, self-mastery, temper, willpower), сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), хладнокръвие (calmness, composure, cool, coolness, equanimity, sangfroid, self possession), окуражавам (buck up, embolden, encourage, fortify, hearten, inspire, man, reman), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), нерв (fiber, fibre), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), мъжество (courage, fearlessness, heart, pluck, prowess, virility), жилка (fiber, fibre, film, spice, strain, streak, stria, thread, tinge, vein), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness), давам сила на, давам кураж на. (various references)

   

Catalan

  

nervi. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

膽量 , 神" , 神经 (nerves). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nerv (exciter, vein), odvaha (boldness, courage, daring, doughtiness, grit, guts, high spirits, mettle, spirit, spunk, valor, valour), drzost (audacity, brass, cheek, effrontery, face, front, impertinence, impudence, insolence, rudeness, sauce), dodat si odvahy (pluck up one's courage, take courage, take heart), žilka (rib, string, vein), žebro (rib). (various references)

   

Danish

  

nerve (nervus). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zenuw (nervus). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

nervo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

nerv. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پی (Inkling, Scent, Sinew, Substratum), نیروبخشیدن , قوت قلب دادن , قدرت (Authority, Godown, Might, Posse, Potency, Power, Rod, Sovereignty, Vim, Vis, Zing), وتر (Cord, Hypotenuse, Sinew, Tendon), عصب (Chord), طاقت (Gut, Lip, Patience, Stamina, Sufferance), رشته عصبی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jäntevyys (muscularity, vigour), jänne (chord, cord, sinew, string, tendon), hermo. (various references)

   

French

  

nerf (nervus). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sine (sinew, string, tendon), senuw. (various references)

   

German

  

Nerv (sinew, vein). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νεύρο (sinew). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מרץ (drive, energy, force, liveliness, rigour, sap, sinew, snap, spirit, steam, strength, verve, vigour, vim), לעו"" (cheer, cheer up, embolden, encourage, hearten, invigorate, keep in countenance, man, spirit, strengthen), לאמץ (encourage, strenghen), לאזור כח (gather strength, nerve oneself), אמץ (courage, pertness, stoutness, strength, virtue), חוזק (force, impregnability, intensity, might, strength), "עז" (audacity, bravado, daring, hazard, impertinence, insolence, temerity, venture), 'י" (penis, sinew, tendon, vein). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

magabiztosság (assertiveness, cock-sureness, confidence, panache, self-assertion, self-assurance, self-confidence), ideg, bátorság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, bravado, bravery, courage, dutch courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, heroism, high spirits, manhood, pluck, prowess, spunk, valor, valour), vakmerőség (audaciousness, audacity, derring-do, foolhardiness, recklessness, temerity, venture), erezet (network, rib, streak, swirl, tracery, vein), ín (leader, sinew, tendon). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

taug (cord, rope, string). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

syaraf, saraf, kegelisahan (concern, discomfort, disquiet, nervousness, perturbation, unrest, worry), asabat (muscle, sinew). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nervo (vein). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

胆力 (courage, grit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

た"りょく (courage, grit), し"けい (sensitivity), きもったま (courage, guts, pluck, spirit), どきょう (bravery, courage, grit, guts, pluck, sutra chanting), ゆうき (boldness, bravery, courage, definite period or term, departed soul, evocation, evoke, ghost, organic, revenant, spirit, valour). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(nerves, Nervous, Neural, neuron, Neurotic). (various references)

   

Manx

  

niartaghey (affirm, affirmation, brace, building up, cement, confirm, confirmation, consolidate, consolidation, documentation, extend, fortification, fortify, intensify, invigorate, reinforce, reinforcement, stiffen, strengthen), nearag, feh (sinew, tendon), cur creeaght da, asney (fin, rib, timber). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

nervio. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ervenay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

nervo (energy, rib, web). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nerv (go, hysterics), neobrãzare (boldness, cheek, contumely, flippancy, immodesty, neck), tupeu (gumption, gut), temeritate (daring, foolhardiness, temerity), sânge rece (cold blood, cold-bloodedness, phlegm, self possession, self-command, temper), ridica moralul (cheer), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, brass, break, cheek, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, naughtiness, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness), forţã (drive, energy, force, greatness, influence, locomotive power, measure, might, mightiness, potency, power, punch, sinew, strength, stress, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, weight), energie (activity, backbone, bottom, briskness, drive, energy, force, gimp, go, gumption, might, pep, pepper, peppiness, pith, pithiness, power, punch, sap, snap, soul, spirit, spunk, strength, vigor, vigour, vim, virtue, zip), curaj (boldness, bravery, chins up, come on, courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, go, grit, gut, hardihood, manliness, pluck, recklessness, spirit, spunk, stomach, stoutness, valor, valour), întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, screw, season, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress, tone up), încuraja (buck up, cheer, countenance, elate, embolden, encourage, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, key up, pep, promote, reassure, stimulate, stomach, support, uphold), îmbãrbãta (encourage, recomfort, shout on). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сила (arm, efficacy, energy, force, force of, forcefulness, libido, lustiness, might, pitch, pith, potency, power, strength, strengths, vehemence, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, virtue), хладнокровие (cold blood, composure, coolness, recollection, sangfroid, self possession), нерв нервный, нерв, нахальство (cheek, chutzpah, cool cheek, impertinence), наглость (assuredness, audaciousness, chutzpah, effrontery, face, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impudence, insolence, sauce, snoutiness), мужество (doughtiness, fortitude, guts, pluck, sand, spunk), присутствие духа (presence of mind, recollection), придавать силу (potentiate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nerv, snažiti, krepiti, hrabrost (bravery, courage, doughtiness, fortitude, gallantry, gut, hardihood, heart, mettle, morale, pluck, sportsmanship, spunk, valor, valour), drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, brash, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, petulance, presumption, temerity), živac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nervio (fiber, fibre, rib, sinew, stamina). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

neva. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nerv (vein), fräckhet (audacity, brass, cheek, cheekiness, coolness, face, front, gall, impudence, insolence, moxie, rudeness, sauce, wickedness). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เส้นประสาท, ความกล้า (bottle, gall, guts). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

asap. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

nerw (r), damar (artery, vein). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

набратися духу, бадьорість (freshness, greenness, liveliness, pep), енергія (activity, bang, birr, dash, energy, might, oomph, punch, push, sappiness, spring, vim, whiz, whizz, will, zap, zest), зібратися з силами (brace oneself up), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, effrontery, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, lip, neck, outrecuidance), мужність (bravery, courage, machismo, manhood, manliness, masculinity, mettle), мускул (muscle), надавати мужності, прожилка, надавати сили (invigorate), сухожилля (sinew, tendon), нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, effrontery, hardihood, insolence, insolency, neck, sauce), нерв, нерви, нервова система, нервовість (fussiness, nervosity, nervousness), тятива (bow-string), холоднокровність (cold-bloodedness, composure, cool, coolness, equanimity, sobriety), сила (agency, cloud, efficacy, force, iron, muscle, pith, potence, potency, power, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, wealth), надавати рішучості. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trạng thái thần kinh kích động khí lực, khu vực trung tâm, khí phách (gut), dũng khí (heart, sportsmanship), can đảm (brave, courageous, high-hearted, manly, prow, stout-hearted, valiant), bộ phận đầu não điềm tĩnh, điềm đạm (even-minded, even-tempered, level, level-headed, sober-minded, staid). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

nerf. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nerve

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

neuron. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

nervi, nervicis, nervo, nervos, nervosus, nervum, nervus. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

nervus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nerve

Derivations

Words beginning with "nerve": nerved, nerveless, nervelessly, nervelessness, nervelessnesses, nerves. (additional references)

Words ending with "nerve": innerve, unnerve. (additional references)

Words containing "nerve": innerved, innerves, unnerved, unnerves. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nerve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berve, erve, nairver, narf, Narvaez, narvel, Neeva, Neeve, Neiva, neive, Nere, Nereo, nerf, nerv, nerva, nerver, nervet, nervey, Nervi, Nervii, nervo, Neuva, neuve, neva, nevea, neven, nevez, Nevruz, nieve, nire, nirve, nirvs, nivr, norvex, Novre, nurve, perve, rerve, terve, unervee, werve, zerve. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nerve"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nerve" (pronounced ner"v)
3n er" vunnerve.
2-er" vconserve, curve, deserve, observe, oeuvre, preserve, reserve, serve, swerve, verve.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nerve

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: never.

Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-v"

-1 letter: erne, even, ever, neve, veer.

-2 letters: ere, ern, eve, nee, ree, rev, vee.

-3 letters: en, er, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-v"
 

+1 letter: envier, evener, nerved, nerves, veiner, vender, veneer, venery, venire, venter.

 

+2 letters: avenger, cervine, enfever, engrave, enviers, eveners, fervent, innerve, inverse, livener, nervate, nervier, nervine, nervule, nervure, overmen, overnew, prevent, ravened, ravener, reeving, regiven, revenge, revenue, rewoven, unnerve, unreeve, veering, veiners, veinier, venders, veneers, venires, venomer, venters, venture, verbena, vernier, versine, veteran.

 

+3 letters: antevert, avengers, averment, caverned, cheveron, conserve, convener, converge, converse, conveyer, cravened, endeavor, enervate, enfevers, engraved, engraver, engraves, enslaver, eversion, everting, everyman, everymen, everyone, fervency, fevering, governed, innerved, innerves, inventer, inverses, inverted, inverter, lavender, levanter, levering, liveners, maneuver, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, ovenware, overdone, overkeen, overlend, overlent, overmine, overnear, overneat, overnice, overseen, oversewn, overtone, overween, parvenue, prevents, raveners, reconvey, redriven, reinvade, reinvent, reinvest, reinvite, reinvoke, relevant, renovate, replevin, reshaven, revanche, revehent, reveling, revenant, revenged, revenger, revenges, revenual, revenued, revenuer, revenues, reverend, reverent, revering, riverine, severing, sirvente, sniveler, taverner, unevener, universe, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unversed, veneered, veneerer, venerate, venereal, veneries, venomers, ventured, venturer, ventures, verbenas, verboten, verecund, vergence, vernacle, vernicle, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versines, veterans, vineries, viperine, vomerine, whenever.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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