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Biceps vs Sinew - What's the difference?

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In anatomy terms the difference between biceps and sinew

is that biceps is any muscle having two heads while sinew is a cord or tendon of the body.

As a verb sinew is

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

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

    Related terms

    * biceps brachii * biceps cubiti * biceps femoris * bicipital * triceps * quadriceps

    sinew

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
  • (obsolete) A nerve.
  • (figuratively) Muscle; nerve; nervous energy; vigor; vigorous strength; muscular power.
  • A string or chord, as of a musical instrument.
  • (figuratively) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting member or factor; mainstay; source of strength (often plural).
  • * Shakespeare
    • The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.

    Derived terms

    * sinewy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To knit together, or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Goldsmith
    • Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger.

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