Definition of Nerve

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Definition of Nerve

Nerve

One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

A sinew or a tendon.

Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.

Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.

Audacity; assurance.

One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.

To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

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Nerve Quotations

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.
Lee Trevino

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
Paul Lynde

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood

Nerve Translations

nerve in Danish is nerve
nerve in Dutch is zenuw
nerve in French is nerf
nerve in German is Nerv, nerven
nerve in Italian is nervo
nerve in Portuguese is nervo
nerve in Spanish is nervio

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