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nerve | neve |

As a verb nerve

is .

As a noun neve is

.

nerve

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
    • The nerves can be seen through the skin.''
  • (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
  • (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood
    • ''Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves
  • Courage, boldness.
    • He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her, what a wimp!
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
    • A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
  • Patience. (rfexample)
  • Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
  • * Milton
    • He led me on to mightiest deeds, / Above the nerve of mortal arm.
  • Audacity, gall.
    • He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
  • *
  • (in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.
    • Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test.
  • (obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.
    (Alexander Pope)

    Synonyms

    ; Audacity, gall : brashness, brazenness, big balls

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bundle of nerves * get on somebody's nerves/get on one's nerves * nervation * nerveless * nervy * nerve cell * nerve center * nerve ending * nerve fiber * nerve gas * nerve impulse * nerve-racking * nerves of steel * nerve-wracking * nervi-, nervo- * touch a nerve * unnerved * war of nerves

    Related terms

    * enervate * neuron * nervous * nervure

    Verb

    (nerv)
  • To give courage; sometimes with "up".
    • ''May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
  • To give strength
    • ''The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

    Anagrams

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    neve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) Nephew.
  • * 1920 , Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe :
    • Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve , and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A male cousin.
  • * 1988 , Michael Tepper, New World immigrants :
    • Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve " ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A grandson.
  • (rare) A spendthrift.

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