different between sinew vs hamstring

English

Etymology

From Middle English sineu, sineue, sinue (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English seonu, sinewe, sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinw?, *senaw? (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“tendon, sinew”), from *(s)neh?- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).

The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (sn?uuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit ??????? (sn?ván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ?ñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nju/
• Hyphenation: sin?ew

Noun

sinew (plural sinews)

1. (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
2. A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
3. (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
4. (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
5. (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.

Alternative forms

• sinnew

Coordinate terms

• (cord or string): twine

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sinew (third-person singular simple present sinews, present participle sinewing, simple past and past participle sinewed)

1. (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.

Derived terms

• unsinew

Translations

References

Further reading

• tendon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wenis, Wiens, Wines, sewin, swein, swine, we'ins, wenis, wines, wisen

English

Etymology

ham (“region back of the knee joint”) +? string

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæmst???/

Noun

hamstring (plural hamstrings)

1. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
2. (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

   Synonym: hams

   • 2010, Adam Garett, "Fried Hams", Reps! 17:23

     Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.

Translations

Verb

hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)

1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.

   Synonyms: hock, hough, hox

2. (transitive, figuratively) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. [from 1640s]

   Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:disable

Translations

Anagrams

• Stringham

Swedish

Etymology

hamstra +? -ing

Noun

hamstring c

1. hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks)

Declension

Related terms

• hamster
• hamstrare
• hamstringsvåg

References

• hamstring in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)