nerve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: nerves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nerves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nerving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nerved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nerved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
gloss: A neuron.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
gloss: A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
pos: noun
examples: Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.
gloss: Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
pos: noun
examples: He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her.
“Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
You got a lot of nerve / To say you are my friend / When I was down / You just stood there grinning
A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
Southgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.
gloss: Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: All these rationalizations for asinine behavior are getting on my nerves.
His nerves could no longer handle the worry.
gloss: Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: 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
gloss: The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
pos: noun
examples: The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
gloss: Sinew, tendon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: A particular simplicial set constructed from a category.
pos: noun
gloss: To give courage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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!
gloss: To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: She has been trying everything (wedge pads, bar shoes, etc.) and he is still dead lame. Someone has suggested nerving him, which (I believe - correct me if I am wrong!) involves cutting the main nerve in his foot so he can be ridden without pain.
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.
gloss: To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).
pos: verb
tags: informal
rare
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To be nervous.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
rare
examples: 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.
Speaking of Camden, I pulled off I-676 once to clean my windshield on the side of some surface street before turning around to shoot the Ben Franklin Bridge Westbound and I must say I was a bit nervous knowing the reputation, and I don't "nerve" easily.
Broadband Quality :) Stop nerving!!!
Synonyms: nerve
Related words: enervate
nervous
nervure
neuron
Derived words: 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
hypogastric nerve
hypoglossal nerve
inferior alveolar nerve
inferior laryngeal nerve
infraorbital nerve
innervate
innerve
intermediate nerve
ischiatic nerve
Jacobson nerve
keep one's nerve
lacrimal nerve
laryngeal nerve
lateral pectoral nerve
lateral pterygoid nerve
lesser occipital nerve
lesser petrosal nerve
lingual nerve
long ciliary nerve
lose one's nerve
mandibular nerve
masseteric nerve
maxillary nerve
medial pterygoid nerve
median nerve
mental nerve
midnerve
motor nerve
musculospiral nerve
nasal nerve
nasociliary nerve
nasopalatine nerve
nerval
nervate
nervation
nerve agent
nerve cell
nerve center
nerve centre
nerve cord
nerve ending
nerve fiber
nerve fibre
nerve gas
nerve growth factor
nerve impulse
nerve-jangling
nerveless
nervelet
nervelike
nerve net
nerve of the pterygoid canal
nerve of Wrisberg
nerve out
nerve-rack
nerve rack
nerve-racked
nerve-racking
nerve-rackingly
nerve-shredder
nerve-shredding
nerves of steel
nerve trunk
nerve up
nerveway
nerve-wrack
nerve wrack
nerve-wracked
nerve-wracking
nerve-wreck
nervimotion
nervi-
nervo-
nervish
nervule
nervy
ninth cranial nerve
occipital nerve
oculomotor nerve
olfactory nerve
ophthalmic nerve
optic nerve
outnerve
palatine nerve
pathetic nerve
petrosal nerve
phrenic nerve
pneumogastric nerve
pterygoid nerve
radial nerve
raw nerve
recurrent laryngeal nerve
renervate
renervation
renerve
saphenous nerve
sciatic nerve
second cranial nerve
seventh cranial nerve
short ciliary nerve
sixth cranial nerve
spinal nerve
strain every nerve
strike a nerve
superior alveolar nerve
superior laryngeal nerve
supraclavicular nerve
supraorbital nerve
supratrochlear nerve
sural nerve
tenth cranial nerve
the nerve of
third cranial nerve
touch a nerve
touch a raw nerve
trigeminal nerve
trochlear nerve
twelfth cranial nerve
tympanic nerve
ulnar nerve
unnerve
unnerved
vagus nerve
ventral nerve cord
vestibular nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
Vidian nerve
wandering nerve
war of nerves
Wrisberg's nerve
zygomatic nerve
zygomaticofacial nerve
zygomaticotemporal nerve
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