different between nerve vs dare

English

Etymology

Recorded since circa 1374, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??v/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /n??v/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /n??v/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Noun

nerve (plural nerves)

1. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:nerve

2. (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
3. (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood

4. Courage, boldness.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[2]

     A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test of nerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.

5. Patience.

6. Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
7. Audacity, gall.

   Synonyms: brashness, brazenness, balls; see also Thesaurus:courage
8. (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.

   A nervy tank lining will be difficult to lay around tight bends or in corners because it tends to spring back.

   • 1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A[3]

     The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down or masticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherent nerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.

9. (in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.

10. (obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

      Come on; obey: / Thy nerves are in their infancy again, / And have no vigour in them.

    • 1725, Alexander Pope. Pope's Homer: Odyssey Book X [4]

      Whilst thus their fury rages at the bay,
      My sword our cables cut, I call'd to weigh,
      And charg'd my men, as they from fate would fly,
      Each nerve to strain, each bending oar to ply.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

nerve (third-person singular simple present nerves, present participle nerving, simple past and past participle nerved)

1. (transitive) To give courage.

   May their example nerve us to face the enemy.

2. (transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.

   The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

Usage notes

• Sometimes used with “up”.

Synonyms

• (give strength): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Verne, erven, never

Dutch

Noun

nerve f (plural nerven, diminutive nerfje n)

1. Obsolete form of nerf.

Anagrams

• erven, reven, veren

French

Verb

nerve

1. first-person singular present indicative of nerver
2. third-person singular present indicative of nerver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of nerver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of nerver
5. second-person singular imperative of nerver

German

Pronunciation

Verb

nerve

1. inflection of nerven:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Latin

Noun

nerve

1. vocative singular of nervus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron), and Latin nervus

Noun

nerve m (definite singular nerven, indefinite plural nerver, definite plural nervene)

1. nerve

Derived terms

• isjiasnerve
• nervecelle
• nervesystem

References

“nerve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron), and Latin nervus

Noun

nerve m (definite singular nerven, indefinite plural nervar, definite plural nervane)

1. nerve

Derived terms

• isjiasnerve
• nervecelle
• nervesystem

References

• “nerve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-Germanic *durzan? (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ed?órse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *d?ers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *d?er- (“to hold, support”). Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, Sanskrit ????? (dadhár?a), but also with Ancient Greek ?????? (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian dr?sti, Russian ???????? (derzát?).

Verb

dare (third-person singular simple present dare or dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared or (archaic) durst)

1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
   • 1832, Thomas Macaulay, Parliamentary Reform

     Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.

2. (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)

3. (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to

   Will you dare death to reach your goal?

   • 1886, Clarence King, article in The Century

     To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.

4. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
   • c.1609 , Beaumont and Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (playwright), "The Maid's Tragedy", [Act IV, Scene I]:

     For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

5. (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Dare is a semimodal verb. When used as an auxiliary, the speaker can choose whether to use do-support and the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go", "I dare not go", "I didn't dare (to) go", and "I dared not go" are all correct. Similarly "Dare you go?", "Do you dare (to) go?", "Dared you go?", and "Did you dare (to) go?" are all correct. When not an auxiliary verb, it is different: "I dared him to do it." usually is not written as "I dared him do it.", and "Did you dare him to do it?" is almost never written as "Dared you him do it?"
• In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
• Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, "daren’t" is used occasionally in ordinary past time contexts (Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself).
• Rare regional forms dassn't and dasn't also exists in the present tense and archaic forms dursn't and durstn't in the past tense.
• The expression dare say, used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt daresay.
• Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English modal verbs

Noun

dare (plural dares)

1. A challenge to prove courage.
2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
3. Defiance; challenge.

Derived terms

• dairous
• dareful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English darian.

Verb

dare (third-person singular simple present dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared)

1. (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [16^thc.]
2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16^thc.]

Etymology 3

Noun

dare (plural dares)

1. A small fish, the dace.

Anagrams

• 'eard, Dear, Rade, Read, Reda, ared, dear, rade, read

Crimean Tatar

Noun

dare

1. (music) tambourine

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dar?]

Noun

dare

1. vocative singular of dar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of d?, from Proto-Italic *did?, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti, from the root *deh?- (“give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Verb

dàre (first-person singular present (with following syntactic gemination) dò or (with written accent, with following syntactic gemination) dò, first-person singular past historic dièdi or dètti, past participle dàto, first-person singular present subjunctive dìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi, second-person singular imperative dai or da' or (with written accent, with following syntactic gemination) dà, auxiliary avere) (transitive)

1. to give (to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else)
2. to yield, to bear, to produce, to return

Usage notes

The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:

• da' + ci ? dacci
• da' + gli ? dagli
• da' + gli/le + la ? dagliela
• da' + gli/le + le ? dagliele
• da' + gli/le + li ? daglieli
• da' + gli/le + lo ? daglielo
• da' + le ? dalle
• da' + mi ? dammi

Conjugation

Derived terms

Noun

dare m (plural dari)

1. debit

Anagrams

• arde
• rade

Japanese

Romanization

dare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.re/, [?d?ä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.re/, [?d?????]

Verb

dare

1. present active infinitive of d?
2. second-person singular present passive imperative of d?

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of d?, from Proto-Italic *did?, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti, from the root *deh?- (“give”).

Verb

dare

1. to give

References

• AEDLL

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dare ? (plural dares)

1. (continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach

Synonyms

• ventre (Jersey, Guernsey), vãtr (Sark)

Romanian

Etymology

da +? -re

Noun

dare f (plural d?ri)

1. giving

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dare (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of dar

Slovak

Noun

dare

1. locative singular of dar

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????/
• Hyphenation: da?re

Noun

dare f

1. tree