muscles
肌肉,肌体,肌肉发达,肌肉组织
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Definitions
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- : a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- : an organ, composed of muscle tissue, that contracts to produce a particular movement.
- : muscular strength; brawn: It will take a great deal of muscle to move this box.
- : power or force, especially of a coercive nature: They put muscle into their policy and sent the marines.
- : lean meat.
- : Slang. a hired thug or thugs.a bodyguard or bodyguards: a gangster protected by muscle.
- : a necessary or fundamental thing, quality, etc.: The editor cut the muscle from the article.
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mus·cled, mus·cling.
- : Informal. to force or compel others to make way for: He muscled his way into the conversation.
- : to make more muscular: The dancing lessons muscled her legs.
- : to strengthen or toughen; put muscle into.
- : Informal. to accomplish by muscular force: to muscle the partition into place.
- : Informal. to force or compel, as by threats, promises, influence, or the like: to muscle a bill through Congress.
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mus·cled, mus·cling.
- : Informal. to make one's way by force or fraud.
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- : Informal. being very powerful or capable of high-speed performance: a muscle power saw.
Phrases
- muscle in
- flex one's muscles
- move a muscle
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In its first flexing of new muscle, the branch pored over the plans filed just a few years ago by private utilities, looking for inconsistencies or holes.
The alloy contracts like a muscle when heated, and extends once cool.
Hemp is a source of cannabidiol, also known as CBD, the cannabis-derived compound that consumers use for relief from muscle and joint pain, anxiety, and insomnia.
It’s caused by mutations in the gene that makes dystrophin, a protein that serves to rebuild and strengthen muscle fibers in skeletal and cardiac muscles.
“Working with children using our device, I’ve witnessed a physical moment where the brain “clicks” and starts moving the hand rather than focusing on moving the muscles,” LaChappelle said.
Security guards have also been posted to add some muscle (but this has done little to deter vandals in past years).
Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.
The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.
When it comes to tangible gifts, the sharing economy really starts to flex its holiday disrupting muscle.
I can see the implant in there, and see where the muscle is snatching that implant up.
The strength of the lion is tremendous, owing to the immense mass of muscle around its jaws, shoulders, and forearms.
The man was accustomed to the French of Englishmen, and withdrew without moving a muscle of his face.
He was a man of gigantic muscle, and seizing the arm of Louis, called aloud to bar the egress.
In this country an unexplained marked eosinophilia warrants examination of a portion of muscle for Trichina spiralis (p. 255).
The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.