nerve
Speech parts
1. nerve - Noun
2. nerve - Verb
Meaning
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.
To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.