nerve

Etymology
Recorded since circa 1374 as, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)   A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
 * 2)   A neuron.
 * 3)   A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
 * 4)  Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
 * 5)  Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
 * 6)   One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
 * 7)   Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
 * 8)  The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
 * 9) * 1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A
 * The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
 * 1)   Sinew, tendon.
 * 1)  Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
 * 2)   One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
 * 3)   Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
 * 4)  The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
 * 5) * 1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A
 * The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
 * 1)   Sinew, tendon.
 * 1)   One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.
 * 2)   Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
 * 3)  The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
 * 4) * 1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A
 * The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
 * 1)   Sinew, tendon.
 * 1)  The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
 * 2) * 1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A
 * The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
 * 1)   Sinew, tendon.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: عصب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: স্নায়ু
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Roman ,
 * Abjad سڭیر
 * Basque: nerbio,
 * Belarusian: нерв, нэрв, нэ́рва
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nerve
 * Dutch:, neuronenbundel
 * Elfdalian: nerf
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: närv
 * Faroese: nerv, nerva
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: nerf
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნერვი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: νεῦρον
 * Greenlandic: sianiut
 * Gujarati: ચેતાતંતુ,
 * Haitian Creole: nè
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, तंत्रिका
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: nerva
 * Irish: néaróg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: urat
 * Kazakh: жүйке
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: нерв
 * Lao:, ປະສາດ
 * Latin: nervus
 * Latvian: nervs
 * Lithuanian: nervas
 * Low German: Nerv
 * Luxembourgish: Nerv
 * Macedonian: нерв
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: nerv
 * Maori:, akaaka
 * Middle English: nerve
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, нерв
 * Navajo: atsʼoos
 * Northern Sami: nearva
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nerve
 * Nynorsk: nerve
 * Old English: wealdweaxa
 * Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر, عصب
 * Pashto: عَصَب
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: nerv
 * Plautdietsch: Narf
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: gnerv
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Santali: ᱥᱤᱨ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жѝвац, не̏рв
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: nerv
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: nerw
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: neva
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dagandam, nerbiyos, nerbyos
 * Tajik: асаб
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: nerv
 * Ukrainian: нерв
 * Urdu: عَصَب
 * Uyghur: نېرۋا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (神經)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: nerf
 * Yiddish: נערוו


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, , , stalen zenuwen
 * Finnish: ;
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kagitingan, kompiyansa,, tapang
 * Yiddish: חוצפּה


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: kapal ng mukha, kapal, karahasan, kapangahasan


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, sterke zenuwen
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch: verduldigheid, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Swedish:, stamina


 * Finnish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hebrew: עֲצַבִּים
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: nervi
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nerbiyos, nerbyos


 * Latin: (1)
 * Ukrainian: (1)

Verb

 * 1)  To give courage.
 * May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
 * 1)  To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
 * The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
 * 1)  To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
 * The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes used with “up”.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Etymology
, from, from ; thus a. Forms with reflect 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A  bundle of neurons
 * 2) A tendon or sinew band of collagen.
 * 3)  Plant fibre.

Etymology
From, and.

Etymology
From, and.