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SINEW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Possessing muscular strength
Synonyms:
brawn; brawniness; heftiness; muscle; muscularity; sinew
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sinew" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Derivation:
sinewy ((of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
Synonyms:
sinew; tendon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sinew" is a kind of...):
connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)
Meronyms (substance of "sinew"):
collagen (a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sinew"):
hamstring; hamstring tendon (one of the tendons at the back of the knee)
Achilles tendon; tendon of Achilles (a large tendon that runs from the heel to the calf)
Holonyms ("sinew" is a part of...):
muscle system; muscular structure; musculature (the muscular system of an organism)
Derivation:
sinewy (consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon)
Context examples:
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
