nerve - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'nerve' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Nerve

[ n.]

- One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
- A sinew or a tendon.
- Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
- Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
- Audacity; assurance.
- One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
- One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.

2 . Nerve

[ v. t.]

- To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Meaning of 'nerve' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . nerve

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- impudent aggressiveness

Example in sentence:

he had the effrontery to question my honesty;
I couldn't believe her boldness

Meaning (2):
- the courage to carry on

Example in sentence:

he kept fighting on pure spunk;
you haven't got the heart for baseball

Nearby Words:

ner nere nereid nereides nereidian nereids nereis nereites nereocystis nerfling

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Nerve agent
Nerve agent is a potentially lethal chemical agent that interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses.
Optic nerve
The ganglion cells collect and summarize visual information, which is then moved out the book of the eyeball and seen to the brain through a bundle of ganglion axons called the optic nerve.

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