muscle
part of speech
noun (a muscle, muscles); verb (muscle in — informal); adjective muscular
meaning for a pupil
1) A part of the body made of stretchy tissue that tightens and relaxes to make bones and parts of the body move. tree →
2) Strength: «It takes muscle to lift that». tree →
sense in the lessons
In science: you have over 600 muscles; muscles work in pairs (biceps and triceps bend and straighten the arm); the heart is a muscle that never stops; some muscles you control (arm), some work by themselves (heart, stomach). In health: exercise and protein make muscles stronger; warm up before sport to avoid pulling a muscle. Phrases: pull a muscle, build muscle, muscle pain, heart muscle, muscle cramp, flex your muscles.
examples
- Muscles help you move your bones. tree →
- Your heart is a muscle. tree →
- I pulled a muscle playing football. tree →
- Exercise makes your muscles stronger. tree →
- The biceps muscle bends your arm. tree →
- Stretch your muscles after running. tree →
- He has strong leg muscles from cycling. tree →
- You use muscles in your face to smile. tree →
- After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar. tree →
note
Spelling: the c is silent — «muscle», said «MUSS-ul». Do not confuse with «mussel», a shellfish that sounds the same. Countable: muscles. Myth: muscle does not turn into fat; they are different tissues.
In the corpora
- Writing on your own builds your writing muscles.
- Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain.
- Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.
- Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.
- The human body has about 30 trillion cells of many kinds, such as skin, bone, muscle, nerve and blood cells.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «muscle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.