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Abs vs Biceps - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between abs and biceps

is that abs is while biceps is biceps.

abs

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • absolute temperature
  • (mathematics) Abbreviated form of the absolute value function.
  • Abstract.
  • Noun

    (head) (p)
  • (informal) The abdominal muscles.
  • Usage notes

    The singular (ab) is rarely used.

    Synonyms

    * abdominal muscles * abdominals

    References

    Anagrams

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    biceps

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
  • * 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
  • The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
  • Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
  • * 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
  • The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps .
  • (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
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  • * 2005 , Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas? , page 144
  • Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
  • (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
  • * 1987 , Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre
  • Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
  • * 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
  • This means that in the metrical sequence

    Usage notes

    * Now often mistaken as a plural form; see bicep. An archaic plural bicipites, borrowed from the Latin, also exists.

    Synonyms

    * (the biceps brachii) biceps brachii, biceps cubiti * (the upper arm) guns, pythons, upper arm

    Antonyms

    * (prosody) princeps

    Derived terms

    * bicep * biceps curl