Biceps vs Thew - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
* 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
* 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
(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
(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
* 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
Muscle or sinew.
* 1927 , , Arrow, 2008, page 247
* 1960 , , Low-Lands
A good quality or habit; virtue.
An attractive physical attribute, especially muscle; mental or moral vigour.
Biceps is a related term of thew.
As nouns the difference between biceps and thew
is that biceps is biceps while thew is (lb) a bondman; a slave or thew can be muscle or sinew.As an adjective thew is
(lb) bond; servile.As a verb thew is
(obsolete) to oppress; enslave or thew can be instruct in morals or values; chastise.biceps
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
- 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 .
- Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
- 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.
- 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 armAntonyms
* (prosody) princepsDerived terms
* bicep * biceps curlthew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . See (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) thewen, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) thew, theaw (often in plural thewes), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- As a rule, the Purple Chicken catered for the intelligentsia of the neighbourhood, and these did not run to thews and sinews. On most nights in the week you would find the tables occupied by wispy poets and slender futurist painters...
- Fortune’s elf child and disinherited darling, young and randy and more a Jolly Jack Tar than anyone human could conceivably be; thews and chin taut against a sixty-knot gale with a well-broken-in briar clenched in the bright defiant teeth