Vigour vs Muscle - What's the difference?
vigour | muscle | Related terms |
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
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(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
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(uncountable, usually plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
(uncountable, figurative) Strength, force.
* 2010 , Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context , page 81
* 2013 , John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look , page 15
(uncountable, figurative) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
* 1985 — , The Infinity Doctors , p 34
To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
Vigour is a related term of muscle.
As a noun vigour
is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.As an adjective muscle is
muscled, muscly, muscular.As a verb muscle is
.vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.Derived terms
* envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigourmuscle
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(wikipedia muscle)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
- His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles . They seemed to ripple and string tense.
- You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
- It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
- It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle .
Derived terms
* beer muscles * cardiac muscle * gym muscles * involuntary muscle * make a muscle * * musclebound * muscle boy * muscle car * muscled * muscledom * muscle dysmorphia * muscleful * muscle in on * muscleless * muscleman * muscle relaxant * muscle shirt * musclesome * muscle tone * muscle up * muscle-up * muscled up * muscular * muscularity * musculature * muscly * skeletal muscle * smooth muscle * voluntary muscleSee also
* myology * myotomyVerb
(muscl)- He muscled his way through the crowd.
- Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.