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NERVINE

Definitions: NERVINE

NERVINE

Adjective

1. Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.

Noun

1. A nervine agent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Nervine \Nerv"ine\ adjective. [Latin expression nervinus made of sinews: compare to French nervin. See Nerve.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: NERVINE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kava Kava, Valerian, Nervine Herbs (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NERVINE

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

nervine

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NERVINE

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

Albanian

  

ilaç qetësuese për nerva. (various references)

   

Danish

  

nervinum, nervemiddel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nervinum. (various references)

   

French

  

substances neurotropes. (various references)

   

German

  

Nervinum, Nervenheilmittel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατευναστικόσ (assuasive, mitigatory, placatory), τονωτικό των νεύρων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

idegrendszerre ható. (various references)

   

Italian

  

nervino, farmaco neurotonico, farmaco nervino. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ervinenay

   

Portuguese

  

que dá cabo dos nervos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

успокоительное средство. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sredstvo za umirenje živaca, koji utiče na živce. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nervlugnande medel. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatıştırıcı ilaç (paregoric), yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, corrective, demulcent, depressant, low profile, pacificatory, palliative, paregoric, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), sinirlere iyi gelen, sinir ilacı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нервозаспокійливий. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thuốc bổ thần kinh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: NERVINE

Derivations

Words beginning with "NERVINE": nervines, nerviness, nervinesses. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "NERVINE"

Words rhyming with "NERVINE" (pronounced 'Nerv"ine'): Amine, Apocodeine, Brabantine, Bronzine, Butylamine, Buxine, Cacaine, Caffeine, Carbamine, Codeine, Cross-examine, Cystine, Diamine, Diethylamine, Erythrophleine, Ethine, Ethylamine, Examine, Famine, Hexine, Hydramine, Hydroxylamine, Lophine, Lydine, melamine, Methylamine, Monamine, Mytilotoxine, Myxine, Naphthylamine, Nardine, narine, Parkesine, Peptotoxine, Phenylamine, Phloramine, Phycophaeine, Preexamine, Quinoidine, reexamine, Rudolphine, serine, Sinamine, Stibine, Suine, Sylphine, Synallaxine, Taxine, Thebaine, Triamine, Triethylamine, Trimethylamine, Tropeine, Tyrotoxine, Verine, Warine, Wrightine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: NERVINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: innerve.

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

-1 letter: envier, veiner, venine, venire.

-2 letters: inner, nerve, never, nieve, reive, renin, riven, venin.

-3 letters: erne, even, ever, nene, neve, nevi, nine, rein, rive, veer, vein, vier, vine.

-4 letters: ere, ern, eve, inn, ire, nee, ree, rei, rev, rin, vee, vie.

-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, re.

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

+1 letter: innerved, innerves, inventer, nervines, reinvent.

 

+2 letters: environed, innervate, intervene, inventers, inverness, nerviness, nonviewer, reinvents, revenging, unreeving, veneering, venireman, veniremen.

 

+3 letters: aventurine, drivenness, enervating, enervation, enfevering, ergonovine, innervated, innervates, intervened, intervener, intervenes, intervenor, interwoven, inventress, nonviewers, prevenient, preventing, prevention, reconvince, reinvented, turnverein, veneerings, venerating, veneration.

 

+4 letters: anteverting, aventurines, denervating, denervation, endeavoring, enervations, environment, ergonovines, inadvertent, interveners, intervening, intervenors, inventoried, inventories, invernesses, lavendering, maneuvering, nervinesses, nonbeliever, noncoercive, noncreative, nondelivery, nonreactive, nonrelative, overintense, overlending, overweening, preventions, provenience, reconvening, reconveying, reconvinced, reconvinces, reengraving, reinnervate, reinventing, reinvention, reinvesting, replevining, reverencing, supervening, turnvereins, undeserving, venerations.

 

+5 letters: conventicler, denervations, drivennesses, endeavouring, environments, inadvertence, inadvertency, inobservance, interconvert, interinvolve, interleaving, intervention, interviewing, interweaving, inventresses, invulnerable, nonassertive, nonbelievers, nondirective, nonoperative, nonrelatives, normotensive, overcleaning, overengineer, overlearning, oversanguine, overspending, preveniently, proveniences, reconceiving, reconversion, reconverting, reinnervated, reinnervates, reinventions, reinvestment, rejuvenating, rejuvenation, renunciative, supervenient, supervention, unresponsive, venipuncture, veterinarian, volunteering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NERVINE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 45 52 56 49 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .    .-.    ...-    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01000101 01010010 01010110 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#82 &#86 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0052 0056 0049 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48395256434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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