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exercise
English
Alternative forms
- exercice (obsolete; noun senses only)
Etymology
From Middle English exercise, from Old French exercise, from Latin exercitium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
- Hyphenation: ex?er?cise
Noun
exercise (countable and uncountable, plural exercises)
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- an exercise of the eyes and memory
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message
- exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature
- O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
- December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.
- Lewis […] refused even those of the church of England […] the public exercise of their religion.
- (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Derived terms
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Translations
Verb
exercise (third-person singular simple present exercises, present participle exercising, simple past and past participle exercised)
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
Translations
See also
- train
- work out
Further reading
- exercise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- exercise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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musclebound
English
Alternative forms
- muscle-bound
Etymology
muscle +? bound
Adjective
musclebound (comparative more musclebound, superlative most musclebound)
- Having pronounced muscle development through weightlifting, bodybuilding, or other physical exercise.
- (derogatory) Having excessive muscle (sometimes with implications of correspondingly inferior intellect).
- (figuratively) Ungainly as a result of muscle over-development.
Translations
See also
- musclesome
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