brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness
(noun) possessing muscular strength
muscle
(noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); “the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign”
muscle, muscular tissue
(noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
muscle, musculus
(noun) one of the contractile organs of the body
muscleman, muscle
(noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard; “the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him”
muscle
(verb) make one’s way by force; “He muscled his way into the office”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
muscle (countable and uncountable, plural muscles)
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
Synonym: thew
(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
(uncountable, usually, in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
(uncountable, figurative) Strength, force.
(uncountable, figurative) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
muscle (third-person singular simple present muscles, present participle muscling, simple past and past participle muscled)
To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
• clumse
Source: Wiktionary
Mus"cle, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. musculus a muscle, a little mouse, dim. of mus a mouse. See Mouse, and cf. sense 3 (below).]
1. (Anat.) (a) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. (b) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
Note: Muscles are of two kinds, striated and nonstriated. The striated muscles, which, in most of the higher animals, constitute the principal part of the flesh, exclusive of the fat, are mostly under the control of the will, or voluntary, and are made up of great numbers of elongated fibres bound together into bundles and inclosed in a sheath of connective tissue, the perimysium. Each fiber is inclosed in a delicate membrane (the sarcolemma), is made up of alternate segments of lighter and darker material which give it a transversely striated appearance, and contains, scattered through its substance, protoplasmic nuclei, the so-called muscle corpuscles. The nonstriated muscles are involuntary. They constitute a large part of the walls of the alimentary canal, blood vessels, uterus, and bladder, and are found also in the iris, skin, etc. They are made up of greatly elongated cells, usually grouped in bundles or sheets.
2. Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight. [Colloq.]
3. Etym: [AS. muscle, L. musculus a muscle, mussel. See above.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Mussel. Muscle curve (Physiol.), contraction curve of a muscle; a myogram; the curve inscribed, upon a prepared surface, by means of a myograph when acted upon by a contracting muscle. The character of the curve represents the extent of the contraction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
