different between flexor vs thew

English

Alternative forms

• flector (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flect? (“I bend”)

Noun

flexor (plural flexors)

1. A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
   • 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual

     Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

Translations

See also

• biceps
• extensor

Spanish

Adjective

flexor (feminine flexora, masculine plural flexores, feminine plural flexoras)

1. (anatomy) flexor

Further reading

• “flexor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?/, /?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Middle English thew, theow, from Old English þ?ow, þ?o (“servant, slave; servile, not free, bond”), from Proto-Germanic *þewaz, *þegwaz (“servant; subject, servile”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekwos (“runner”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek?- (“to run, flow”). Cognate with Old High German diu (“servant”) and dio (“unfree”), Gothic ???????????????? (þius, “bondman, slave, servant”), Dutch dienen (“to serve”), German dienen (“to serve”), Old English þegn (“servant, minister, vassal”).

Noun

thew (plural thews)

1. (obsolete) A bondman; a slave.

Adjective

thew (comparative more thew, superlative most thew)

1. (obsolete) Bond; servile.

Etymology 2

From Middle English thewen, from Old English þ?owan, þ?wan (“to press, impress, force, press on, urge on, drive, press with a weapon, thrust, pierce, stab, threaten, rebuke, subjugate, crush, push, oppress, check”), from Proto-Germanic *þewjan? (“to enslave, oppress”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek?- (“to run, flow”). Cognate with Middle Dutch douwen, Middle Low German duwen, Middle High German diuhen, d?hen, diuwen (“to oppress”).

Verb

thew (third-person singular simple present thews, present participle thewing, simple past and past participle thewed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To oppress; enslave.

Etymology 3

From Middle English thew, theaw (often in plural thewes), from Old English þ?aw (“usage, custom, general practise of a community, mode of conduct, manner, practise, way, behaviour”).Cognate with Old Frisian th?w, Old Saxon thau (“custom”).possibly reflected in an Old High German *dou (“discipline, coercion, tuition”); West Germanic *þawwaz (“custom, habit”), of unknown etymology, by EWAhd tentatively identified as a reflex of an s-less variant of Proto-Indo-European (s)t?u- (s)te- (“to stand, place”).

Noun

thew (plural thews)

1. Muscle or sinew.
   • 1927, P. G. Wodehouse, 'The Small Bachelor', Arrow, 2008, page 247

     As a rule, the Purple Chicken catered for the intelligentsia of the neighbourhood, and these did not run to thews and sinews. On most nights in the week you would find the tables occupied by wispy poets and slender futurist painters...

   • 1960, Thomas Pynchon, Low-Lands

     Fortune’s elf child and disinherited darling, young and randy and more a Jolly Jack Tar than anyone human could conceivably be; thews and chin taut against a sixty-knot gale with a well-broken-in briar clenched in the bright defiant teeth

2. A good quality or habit; virtue.
   • c. 1379, Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame, 1829-34, [1]

     To tellen al the tale aright, / We ben shrewes, every wight, / And han delyt in wikkednes, / As gode folk han in goodnes; And Ioye to be knowen shrewes, / And fulle of vyce and wikked thewes;

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, in Dorothy Stephens (ed.), The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Book IV, Canto 9, Stanza 14, p. 391,

     He with good thewes and speaches well applyde, / Did mollifie, and calme her raging heat.

3. (usually in the plural) An attractive physical attribute, especially muscle; mental or moral vigour.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3, 495-8 [2]

     For nature crescent does not grow alone / In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: Modern Library, 1921, Stanza 10, p. 130, [3]

     He travelling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance, / None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, "Reveille" in A Shropshire Lad, [4]

     Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber / Sunlit pallets never thrive; / Morns abed and daylight slumber / Were not meant for man alive.

   • 1998: B.A. Roberts, Battle Magic – As I pull two Mercian shafts from my bloodied thews.

Derived terms

Verb

thew (third-person singular simple present thews, present participle thewing, simple past and past participle thewed)

1. Instruct in morals or values; chastise.

Derived terms

• thewed

References

Anagrams

• whet

Tapayuna

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [????p?]

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *tep (“fish”) < Proto-Cerrado *tep (“fish”).

Noun

thew

1. Form of thewe (utterance-medial variant)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?e?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /??u?/

Adjective

thew

1. Aspirate mutation of tew.

Mutation