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Definition: Hamstring |
HamstringNoun1. One of the tendons at the back of the knee. Verb1. Make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules". 2. Cripple by cutting the hamstring. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hamstring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hamstring To disable by severing the tendons of the ham. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In human anatomy, the hamstrings are a group of muscles on the underside (posterior aspect) of the thigh. They are responsible for flexion of the knee, and all attach proximally to the ischial tuberosity.Because they attach to part of the hip, they also act to extend the lower limb at the hip joint. The hamstrings assist in slowing down passive extension of the knee when walking.
The hamstrings include:
- semitendinosus - attaches distally to the medial tibial condyle.
- semimembranosus - also attaches to the medial tibial condyle.
- biceps femoris - attaches distally to the head of the ulna. It has a long and a short head, the short head's proximal attachment being the linea aspera of the femur. The long head attaches to the ischial tuberosity.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hamstring."
Synonym: HamstringSynonym: hamstring tendon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp. |
Impotence | Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. |
Restraint | Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hamstring |
| English words defined with "hamstring": Hamble, Hamstringing, Hamstrung, Hockle, Hough, Hox ♦ pull ♦ twist ♦ wrench. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hamstring" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (hoarding), Swedish (hoarding). |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Pulley with leather shoe in use as hamstring exercise. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Thailand | Obstacles to effective IPR enforcement are numerous . Resource limitations, especially in the wake of the financial crisis, hamstring police capabilities and judicial administration alike . Although conviction rates are very high, corruption and a cultural climate of leniency can complicate some phases of case administration . Irregularities in police and public prosecutor procedures occasionally have resulted in the substitution of insignificant defendants for major ones and the disappearance of vital evidence . The frequency of raids compromised by leaks from police sources has declined, but remains a concern . Pirates, including those associated with transnational crime syndicates, have responded to stepped-up levels of enforcement with intimidation against rights-holders' representatives. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Resource limitations, especially in the wake of the financial crisis, hamstring police capabilities and judicial administration alike. (references) |
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| "Hamstring" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.36% of the time. "Hamstring" is used about 165 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 (singular) | 96.36% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hamstring": hamstring incapacitate ♦ hamstring tendon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hamstring": hamstring-victim. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "hamstring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tejzë e gjurit, paralizoj (benumb, palsy, paralyse, paralyze), leqe të këmbëve, i pres tejzat. (various references) | |
Arabic | قعد بقطع أوتار الرجل, جعله عاجزا, أوتار المأبض. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спъвам дейността на, осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hock, hough, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, nip), подколянно сухожилие. (various references) | |
Chinese | 腿筋. (various references) | |
Czech | paralyzovat (cripple, paralyze), ochromit (immobilize, palsy, paralyze), kolenní šlacha. (various references) | |
French | handicaper (handicap), tendon, couper les tendons. (various references) | |
German | achillessehne (achilles' tendon). (various references) | |
Greek | σακατεύω (cripple, maim), ιγνυακόσ τενών, νευροκοπώ, παραλύω (disorganize, hamshackle, numb, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, unman). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'י" "ברך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | térdín, térd int átvág, térd ín, megbénít (benumb, cripple, immobilize, lame, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, to benumb, to disable, to hamstring, to hock, to inhibit, to lame, to maim, to palsy, to tie up), lehetetlenné tesz (to close the door upon any discussion, to hamstring). (various references) | |
Indonesian | urat-urat lutut, memotong (butcher, deduct, dissect, dock, intersect, lop, prune), melumpuhkan (demolish, kill, paralyze). (various references) | |
Italian | tendine del ginocchio, tendine del garretto, rendere storpio, azzoppare (cripple, lame, nobble). (various references) | |
Manx | giarrey feh ny hyskid, feh ny hyskid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amstringhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tendo do jarrete, jarretar (hough). (various references) | |
Russian | калечить (cripple, maim, maul, mutilate), подколенное сухожилие (hock), поджилки (hough). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tetiva (chord, ligament, sinew, string, tendon), onesposobiti (cripple, disable, incapacitate, indispose, spike, unfit). (various references) | |
Spanish | tendón de la corva. (various references) | |
Swedish | hindra (balk, bar, baulk, clog, constrain, contain, cramp, cross, cumber, curb, detain, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, hedge, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, keep back, obstruct, occlude, preclude, prevent, put back, short circuit, snag, stay, stymie, trammel, traverse), hassena, knäsena. (various references) | |
Thai | เอ็นร้อยหวาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | topuk kirişini keserek sakatlamak, topuk kirişi, topal etmek (hock, lame), sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, injure, lame, maim, Mar, mutilate, nobble), diz arkasındaki kiriş, baltalamak (sabotage, sap, scupper, undermine, wreck), aksatmak (bar, bother, cast a damp over, disturb, hamper, hinder, inhibit, limp, make limp, paralyse, paralyze, prevent, trouble). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | калічити (beat up, cripple, lame, maim, mutilate), підколінне сухожилля. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | subnervabis, subnervavit, subnervavitque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hamstring": hamstringing, hamstrings. (additional references) | |
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"Hamstring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamstrang, Hirstrigg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hamstring" (pronounced ha"mstri'ng) |
| 5 | -s t r i' ng | shoestring. |
| 3 | -r i' ng | offspring, wellspring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: migrants, smarting, trashing. | |
-2 letters: armings, garnish, gastrin, gratins, harming, harmins, hasting, margins, marting, martins, mashing, masting, matings, migrant, ratings, shaming, sharing, staring, tarnish, thairms, thirams. | |
-3 letters: airths, aright, arming, arshin, ashing, gainst, gamins, garish, garths, giants, girths, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, griths, haring, harmin, hating, ihrams, inarms, instar, mantis, margin, marish, martin, mating. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hamstrings, nightmares. | |
+2 letters: charmingest, garnishment, nightmarish, prognathism. | |
+3 letters: earthmovings, garnishments, hamstringing, marathonings, prognathisms. | |
+4 letters: grantsmanship, histaminergic, mastigophoran, nightmarishly, thermostating. | |
+5 letters: antilogarithms, cinematographs, grantsmanships, magnetospheric, mastigophorans, metamorphosing, phantasmagoria, phantasmagoric, thermostatting. | |
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