Sinew vs Cartilage - What's the difference?
sinew | cartilage |
(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
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To knit together, or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
* Goldsmith
(anatomy) A type of dense, non-vascular connective tissue, usually found at the end of joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks.
In anatomy terms the difference between sinew and cartilage
is that sinew is a cord or tendon of the body while cartilage is a type of dense, non-vascular connective tissue, usually found at the end of joints, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, in the throat and between intervertebral disks.As a verb sinew
is to knit together, or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.sinew
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.
- The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.
Derived terms
* sinewyVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger.