Word of the Day: Nerve
A nerve is connected to your body’s nervous system and your brain. Nerves are what allow you to have a sense of feeling in your body, whether that’s pleasure or pain.
- Tiny nerve endings in your fingers allow you to have a sense of touch.
- Without nerves a person wouldn’t have any sense of feeling in the body.
- Nerve damage can result from a physical injury or from extremely high or low temperatures.
- My neighbor, Dorothy, has some nerve pain in her feet.
- Bob has a nerve condition that causes him to feel physical discomfort very easily.
- A dentist gives a patient novocain to temporarily deaden the nerves that are responsible for tooth pain.
The word “nerve” is often used to describe a person’s personality or stamina.
- That must have hit a nerve. (That made someone feel upset.)
- That guy is getting on my nerves. (He’s bothering me.)
- You’ve got a lot of nerve. (You did something that made me mad.)
- That guy’s got a lot of nerve. (He does things that a person wouldn’t typically do.)
- Mountain climbing takes a lot of nerve. (It takes a lot of courage.)
- It takes a lot of nerve to get up on stage and sing in front of other people. (nerve = courage)
- It takes nerves of steel to be a firefighter.
- I don’t have the nerve to do that.
Essential English Dictionary
Visit the Popular English Words Beginning with N page to see the list of all words starting with letter N. For seeing the HiCafe dictionary, visit the Popular English Words with Meaning page.
