[ UK /nˈɜːv/ ]
[ US /ˈnɝv/ ]
NOUN
  1. any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
  2. impudent aggressiveness
    I couldn't believe her boldness
    he had the effrontery to question my honesty
  3. the courage to carry on
    he kept fighting on pure spunk
    you haven't got the heart for baseball
VERB
  1. get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
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How To Use nerve In A Sentence

  • choco-lemon's diary choco-lemon's Diaryland Diary nerves up until lunch this was a completely horrible day. it picked up when me, lindsay, and krist stopped at murray to buy a quatch. once we smoked i bowl i felt a million times better. and that scares me. Nerves
  • Acquired forms of growth hormone deficiency include tumors of the pituitary, hypothalamus and optic nerve.
  • The nerves are the terminal branches of the right and left vagi, the former being distributed upon the back, and the latter upon the front part of the organ. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
  • The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
  • The nerves that carry the pain impulse also transmit touch and temperature sensations. Times, Sunday Times
  • That man has such a nerve! He's always blaming me for things that are his fault.
  • Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
  • Normally, at times likes these, Montgomerie's nerves are so taut that it would be possible to play a guitar solo on them.
  • From the spine, thirty-one pairs of nerves, called _spinal nerves_, pass to different parts of my body; some to the lungs, some to the heart, some to the stomach, some to the bones, and some to the muscles and skin. Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City
  • Glaucoma is more common in old age, and happens when the optic nerve in the eye is damaged.
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