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Definition: Biceps |
BicepsNoun1. Any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "biceps" was first used: 1634. (references) |
Etymology: Biceps \Bi"ceps\, noun. [Latin expression, two-headed; bis twice caput head. See Capital.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Biceps Muscular strength of the arm; properly, the prominent muscles of the upper arm; so called because they have two heads. (Latin, biceps, two heads.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Biceps is a Latin term that means two heads. It describes muscles that are made up of two distinct parts.
In general usage, biceps usually refers to biceps brachii. The biceps brachii is the prominent muscle on the upper arm, and are associated with strength.
Biceps can also refer to the biceps femoris, one of the hamstring muscles of the underside of the thigh.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biceps."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BICEPS | English | Bio-Informatics Collaborative European Programme and Strategy | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Biceps |
| English words defined with "biceps": antagonistic muscle ♦ biceps brachii, biceps humeri, bicipital ♦ femoral biceps, flex ♦ musculus biceps brachii, musculus biceps femoris. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "biceps": Biceps Parnassus, bicipital tendonitis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "biceps": Bicipital. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Biceps" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (biceps), Czech (biceps), French (biceps), Latin (biceps, having two parts), Romanian (biceps), Serbo-Croatian (biceps), Swedish (biceps). |
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Biceps" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.31% of the time. "Biceps" is used about 59 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 (plural) | 98.31% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "biceps": biceps brachii ♦ biceps humeri ♦ femoral biceps ♦ musculus biceps brachii ♦ musculus biceps femoris. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "biceps": Craig-y-biceps. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
biceps | 781 | biggest biceps in the world | 20 |
biceps her | 149 | flexing biceps | 16 |
biceps female | 147 | get big biceps | 16 |
biceps girl | 85 | junior biceps club | 15 |
big biceps | 84 | biceps and triceps | 15 |
biceps and teen | 63 | biceps peaked | 15 |
huge biceps | 56 | build biceps | 14 |
biggest biceps | 56 | womens biceps | 14 |
biceps woman | 52 | biceps in largest world | 13 |
biceps board message | 43 | male biceps | 13 |
world biggest biceps | 38 | biceps tendonitis | 13 |
bigger biceps | 38 | biceps picture | 13 |
biceps building | 35 | big female biceps | 12 |
world largest biceps | 34 | biceps muscle | 11 |
biceps gallery | 30 | biceps tendon | 11 |
largest biceps | 28 | huge female biceps | 11 |
biceps exercise | 28 | biceps boulder | 11 |
biceps workout | 26 | massive biceps | 10 |
woman with big biceps | 22 | biceps curl | 10 |
bulging biceps | 22 | celebrity biceps | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "biceps"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | biceps, muskul dykrerësh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عضلة الذراع, العضلة ذات الرأسين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бицепс, двуглав мускул. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 二头肌. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | biceps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | biceps (musculus biceps brachii), Europæisk program og strategi for samarbejde inden for bioinformatik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | biceps (musculus biceps brachii), musculus biceps femoris (musculus biceps brachii), musculus biceps brachii (musculus biceps brachii), Europees programma en strategie voor samenwerking op het gebied van de bio-informatica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عضله دوسر, دوسربازوءی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hauislihas (muscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | biceps (musculus biceps brachii). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bizeps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποντίκι (ling, mouse, mouse (mice), muscle), δικέφαλος (musculus biceps brachii). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שריר "זרוע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bicepsz (bicipital muscle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | otot lengan yang menonjol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bicipite, Programma e strategia europei di collaborazione nel campo della bioinformatica (B io-I nformatics C ollaborative E uropean P rogramme and S trategy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 二 筋 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にとうき". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이두근. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | biseps. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icepsbay bíceps, Programa e Estratégia Europeus de Cooperação em Bioinformática (B io-I nformatics C ollaborative E uropean P rogramme and S trategy). (various references) biceps. (various references) бицепс, двуглавая мышца. (various references) paesepe. (various references) biceps. (various references) bíceps (musculus biceps brachii). (various references) tín-khónyane. (various references) biceps. (various references) กล้ามเนื้อ"้านหน้าของแขนส่วนบน. (various references) iki başlı kas (frog). (various references) біцепс. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | biceps. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "biceps": bicepses. (additional references) | |
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"Biceps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bicept, bices, Biches, bicup, bisept. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "biceps" (pronounced bī"se'ps) |
| 5 | -ī" s e' p s | triceps. |
| 4 | -s e' p s | quadriceps. |
| 3 | -e' p s | doorsteps, footsteps, sidesteps. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: bices, epics, sepic, spice. | |
-2 letters: bice, bise, ceps, epic, ices, pecs, pice, pics, pies, sice, sipe, spec, spic. | |
-3 letters: bis, cep, cis, ice, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, sei, sib, sic, sip. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, es, is, pe, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-p-s" | |
+2 letters: bicepses, bioscope, pedicabs. | |
+3 letters: bioscopes, prescribe, proscribe, publicise, republics, spicebush. | |
+4 letters: beclasping, bioscopies, biospheric, crispbread, despicable, despicably, epiblastic, fiberscope, pinchbecks, plebiscite, presbyopic, prescribed, prescriber, prescribes, proscribed, proscriber, proscribes, publicised, publicises, publicizes, publicness, semipublic, subspecies, superbitch. | |
+5 letters: birthplaces, collapsible, compatibles, copublished, copublisher, copublishes, crispbreads, fiberoptics, fiberscopes, inescapable, inescapably, microprobes, picketboats, plebiscites, predicables, presbyopics, prescribers, prescribing, probenecids, proboscides, proboscises, processible, proscribers, publicities, putrescible, republicans, specifiable, spicebushes, subspecific, superscribe, susceptible, susceptibly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 63 65 70 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. -.-. . .--. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i c e p s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0063 0065 0070 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367569718285 |
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