sinew

n. 肌肉, 精力, 体力, 力量的源泉, 腱 vt. 赋予力量, 加强

发音

UK /ˈsɪnjuː/
其它 /ˈsɪny/
US /ˈsɪnju/
AU /ˈsɪnjʉː/

词形变化

sinews 复数 sinews sinewing sinews 三单 sinewing 现在分词 sinewed 过去式 sinewed 过去分词

别名

sinnew

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cord or tendon of the body.

    医学
  2. 2.

    A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.

  3. 3.

    Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    A nerve.

    废旧 医学
v.
  1. 1.

    To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

muscle brawn tendon brawniness heftiness muscularity

上位词 2

strength connective tissue

下位词 3

hamstring Achilles tendon tendon of Achilles

部分词 1

collagen

整体词 1

musculature

词源

From Middle English synwe, synewe (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”), from *(s)neh₁- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”). The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Danish sene (“tendon, sinew”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit स्नावन् (snāván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.

来源：wiktionary