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nerve

noun
/nɝv/US/nɜːv/UK/nɜɪv/

Etymology

Recorded since circa 1374 as Middle English nerve, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew. Verb sense 4 (“to get on (someone’s) nerves”) is chiefly a semantic loan from German nerven.

  1. derived from nervus
  2. derived from nervus
  3. inherited from nerve

Definitions

  1. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.

    • The nerves can be seen through the skin.
    • Like her I go; I cannot stay; ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]

  2. A neuron.

  3. A vein in a leaf

    A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.

    • Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. Courage

      Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.

      • He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
      • He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her.

    2. Patience

      Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.

      • The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories
      • He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.

    3. One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's…

      One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.

      • All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.
      • His nerves could no longer handle the worry.

    4. Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.

      • Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test; she was a bundle of nerves.
      • Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me

    5. The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during…

      The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.

    6. Sinew, tendon.

      • Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.
      • Whilst thus their fury rages at the bay, My sword our cables cut, I call'd to weigh, And charg'd my men, as they from fate would fly, Each nerve to strain, each bending oar to ply.

    7. A particular simplicial set constructed from a category.

    8. To give courage.

      • May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
      • The yellow-bearded Mailey, the old warrior, scarred with many combats and eager for more, stood beside his wife, the gentle squire who bore his weapons and nerved his arm.
      • And how I strained my ears, and nerved my hands and limbs, beginning to twitch with convulsive movements, which I feared might betray me!

    9. To give strength

      To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.

      • The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
      • The shock nerved her, and she ran aimlessly till she fell, and for a time lay, but making a barrier of her arms, that the child should not be crushed.

    10. To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).

      • You can't nerve a hoof and I didn't realize that the cannon bone where the nerving takes place is not part of the leg.
      • Her instructor was trying to convince me that her horse's tail "needed" to be nerved.

    11. To get on (someone’s) nerves

      To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).

      • I guess, my previous message never came in the net..so again: (hope, i don't nerve anyone) We want to combine different LAN's via fiberoptic cable (Monomode) to the Internet.
      • No way was I assured, but after that the doctor refused to answer anymore questions. Instead, he wouldn’t stop nerving me to give him a guided tour of the berserker.
      • Do not nerve others: Of course it helps to talk to others. But just when you've got a lot of information, that can be annoying.

    12. To be nervous.

      • Mathias slowly leads his hand down to the holster... yeah, cool steel... his fingers wrap around the grip of his Smith & Wesson's, dragging it out, aiming and... In other words: Stop nerving, damiac14!
      • use the extrapolar solution, don't nerve.

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Derived

abducens nerve, abducent nerve, abnerval, accessory nerve, acoustic nerve, alveolar nerve, auditory nerve, auriculotemporal nerve, binervate, buccal nerve, bundle of nerves, cavernous nerve, cervical nerve, ciliary nerve, cochlear nerve, cranial nerve, deep petrosal nerve, deep temporal nerve, denervate, denervated, eighth cranial nerve, eighth nerve, eleventh cranial nerve, facial nerve, fifth cranial nerve, fifth nerve, first cranial nerve, fourth cranial nerve, freshman's nerve, frontal nerve, get on somebody's nerves, get on one's nerves, get on someone's last nerve, glossopalatine nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, greater occipital nerve, greater petrosal nerve, hit a nerve, hit a raw nerve, hold one's nerve · +133 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at nerve. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at nerve. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at nerve

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA