Английский словарь американских идиом - muscle
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~1 n 1 one of the pieces of flesh inside your body that connects your bones together and that you use when you move (The next day the muscles in my arm felt sore. | arm/chest/stomach muscles) (bulging chest muscles | pull a muscle (=injure a muscle so that it becomes painful)) (My leg hurts - I think I've pulled a muscle.) 2 physical strength and power (It must have taken a lot of muscle to get that piano up those stairs. | put some muscle into it spoken (=used to tell someone to try harder and use more effort)) 3 military, political, or financial power or influence (US military muscle) 4 not move a muscle to remain completely still (I shouted at him, but he didn't move a muscle.) 5 slang strong men who are paid to protect or attack someone, especially by criminals (- see also flex your muscles flex1 (2)) ~2 v muscled, muscling muscle in phr v to use your strength, power, or influence to get control of someone else's business or to interfere in their affairs + on (Another gang was trying to muscle in on their territory.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(muscles, muscling, muscled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A muscle is a piece of tissue inside your body which connects two bones and which you use when you make a movement. Keeping your muscles strong and in tone helps you to avoid back problems... He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle... N-VAR 2. If you say that someone has muscle, you mean that they have power and influence, which enables them to do difficult things. Eisenhower used his muscle to persuade Congress to change the law... = clout N-UNCOUNT 3. If a group, organization, or country flexes its muscles, it does something to impress or frighten people, in order to show them that it has power and is considering using it. The Fair Trade Commission has of late been flexing its muscles, cracking down on cases of corruption. PHRASE: V inflects 4. If you say that someone did not move a muscle, you mean that they stayed absolutely still. He stood without moving a muscle, unable to believe what his eyes saw so plainly. PHRASE: V inflects, with brd-neg ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin musculus, from diminutive of mus mouse — more at mouse Date: 14th century 1. a. a body tissue consisting of long cells that contract when stimulated and produce motion b. an organ that is essentially a mass of ~ tissue attached at either end to a fixed point and that by contracting moves or checks the movement of a body part 2. a. muscular strength ; brawn b. effective strength ; power political ~ II. verb (~d; muscling) Date: 1913 transitive verb to move or force by or as if by muscular effort ~d him out of office intransitive verb to make one's way by brute strength or by force ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a fibrous tissue with the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of an animal body. 2 the part of an animal body that is composed of muscles. 3 physical power or strength. --v.intr. (usu. foll. by in) colloq. force oneself on others; intrude by forceful means. Phrases and idioms muscle-bound with muscles stiff and inelastic through excessive exercise or training. muscle-man a man with highly developed muscles, esp. one employed as an intimidator. not move a muscle be completely motionless. Derivatives muscled adj. (usu. in comb.). muscleless adj. muscly adj. Etymology: F f. L musculus dimin. of mus mouse, from the fancied mouselike form of some muscles ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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мышца, мускул – abducentmuscle – acromiohumeral muscle – adductor muscle – antagonistic muscle – bipennate muscle – broadest muscle of back – cardiac muscle – ciliary muscle – circular muscle – closing muscle – constrictor muscle – cowl muscle – cross-striated muscle – fibrillar flight muscle – fiddle muscles – fixation muscle – flight muscle – fusiform muscle – involuntary muscle – Ivanov's muscle – longitudinal muscle – mastication muscle – nonstriated muscle – orbicular muscle – organic muscle – palpebral muscle – papillary muscle – pectoral muscle – phasic muscles – plain muscle – postural muscles – skeletal muscle – skew muscle – smooth muscle – soleus muscle – somatic muscle – striated muscle – synergistic muscle – tailor's muscle – unstriated muscle – uterine muscle – voluntary muscle – wing muscle MUSCLE BUNDLE мышечный пучок ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. мышца, мускул not to move a muscle —- не шевелиться 2. собир. мускулы 3. сила to have muscle —- быть сильным man of muscle —- силач put some muscle into your work —- работай поусердней, не жалей сил ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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in amer.; coll. вторгаться, врываться силой MUSCLE 1. noun мускул, мышца; fig. сила; a man of muscle - силач 2. v. - muscle in ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1392, from L. musculus "a muscle," lit. "little mouse," dim. of mus "mouse;" so called because the shape and movement of some muscles (notably biceps) were thought to resemble mice. The analogy was made in Gk., too, where mys is both "mouse" and "muscle," and its comb. form gives the medical prefix my-/myo-. The verb to muscle in is 1929 in underworld slang. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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