different between terms vs muscularize

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Alternative forms

• muscularise

Etymology

muscular +? -ize

Verb

muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized)

1. To increase the size of the muscles.
   • 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, page 159

     Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.

2. (transitive) To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
   • 2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73

     Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.