What does sinew mean?
Definitions for sinew
ˈsɪn yusinew
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Princeton's WordNet
tendon, sinewnoun
a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftinessnoun
possessing muscular strength
Wiktionary
sinewnoun
A cord or tendon of the body.
sinewnoun
A nerve.
sinewnoun
Muscle; nerve; nervous energy; vigor; vigorous strength; muscular power.
sinewnoun
A string or chord, as of a musical instrument.
sinewnoun
That which gives strengthor in which strength consists; a supporting member or factor; mainstay; source of acquiring strength (often plural).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SINEWnoun
Etymology: senwe , Saxon; senewen, Dutch.
The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.The rooted fibres rose, and from the wound
Black bloody drops distill’d upon the ground:
Mute and amaz’d, my hair with terror stood;
Fear shrunk my sinews, and congeal’d my blood. Dryden.A sinew cracked, seldom recovers its former strength. John Locke.
Some other sinews there are, from which that overplus of strength in persuasion doth arise. Richard Hooker.
Such discouraging of men in the ways of an active conformity to the church’s rules, cracks the sinews of government; for it weakens and damps the spirits of the obedient. South.
In the principal figures of a picture the painter is to employ the sinews of his art; for in them consists the principal beauties of his work. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.
The feeling pow’r, which is life’s root,
Through ev’ry living part itself doth shed
By sinews, which extend from head to foot;
And, like a net, all o’er the body spread. Davies.To Sinewverb
To knit as by sinews. Not in use.
Etymology: from the noun.
Ask the lady Bona for thy queen;
So shalt thou sinew both these lands together. William Shakespeare, H. VI.
Wikipedia
sinew
A tendon or sinew is a tough, high-tensile-strength band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone. It is able to transmit the mechanical forces of muscle contraction to the skeletal system without sacrificing its ability to withstand significant amounts of tension. Tendons are similar to ligaments; both are made of collagen. Ligaments connect one bone to another, while tendons connect muscle to bone.
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sinew
Sinew refers to the pieces of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to bone, essentially a tendon or ligament. It can also metaphorically refer to a source of strength, power, or resilience.
Webster Dictionary
Sinewnoun
a tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon
Sinewnoun
muscle; nerve
Sinewnoun
fig.: That which supplies strength or power
Sinewverb
to knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews
Etymology: [OE. sinewe, senewe, AS. sinu, seonu; akin to D. zenuw, OHG. senawa, G. sehne, Icel. sin, Sw. sena, Dan. sene; cf. Skr. snva. 290.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sinew
sin′ū, n. that which joins a muscle to a bone, a tendon: muscle, nerve: that which supplies vigour.—v.t. to bind as by sinews: to strengthen.—adj. Sin′ewed, furnished with sinews: (Shak.) strong, vigorous.—n. Sin′ewiness, the state or quality of being sinewy.—adjs. Sin′ewless, having no sinews: without strength or power; Sin′ew-shrunk, applied to a horse which has become gaunt-bellied from being overdriven; Sin′ewy, Sin′ewous, furnished with sinews: consisting of, belonging to, or resembling sinews: strong: vigorous.—Sinews of war, money. [A.S. sinu; Ice. sin, Ger. sehne.]
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swine
Wenis
wines
wisen
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sinew in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sinew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of sinew in a Sentence
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers:
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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