Muscle tissue consists of innumerable cells.
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Muscle
//ˈmʌs.əl//
Synonyms for "muscle" (79 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
Related word relations
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More general
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
More specific
64 entriesMolson muscleMüller's muscleTypes of muscles: see also Category:en:Musclesabdominal muscleabdominoscrotal muscleabducens muscleanterior auricular muscleanterior scalene musclearytenoid muscleauricular musclecaninus musclecardiac muscleciliary musclecricoarytenoid musclecricothyroid muscledeltoid muscle
Showing 16 of 64 words.
Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
9 entriescapable of
2 entriesderived
69 entriesShowing 16 of 69 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
12 entriesmade of
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
48 entriesShowing 16 of 48 words.
used for
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
238 translations across 128 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- spier noun (contractile tissue)
Albanian
1 entries- muskul noun (contractile tissue)
Amharic
1 entries- ጡንቻ noun (contractile tissue)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μῦς noun (contractile tissue)
- ἴς noun (contractile tissue)
Arabic
4 entries- عضلة noun (contractile tissue)
- عضلة noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- عَضَلة noun (contractile tissue)
- عَضَلَة noun (contractile tissue)
Armenian
2 entries- մկան noun (contractile tissue)
- մկան noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Aromanian
1 entries- mushclju noun (contractile tissue)
Assamese
1 entries- পেশী noun (contractile tissue)
Asturian
2 entries- músculu noun (contractile tissue)
- músculu noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əzələ noun (contractile tissue)
Bashkir
1 entries- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
Basque
1 entries- gihar noun (contractile tissue)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- masor noun (contractile tissue)
Belarusian
3 entries- му́скул noun (contractile tissue)
- мы́шца noun (contractile tissue)
- цяглі́ца noun (contractile tissue)
Bengali
1 entries- পেশী noun (contractile tissue)
Bulgarian
3 entries- му́скул noun (contractile tissue)
- мускул noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- пробивам си път verb (use force to make progress)
Burmese
1 entries- ကြွက်သား noun (contractile tissue)
Carpathian Rusyn
2 entries- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
- мяз noun (contractile tissue)
Catalan
1 entries- múscul noun (contractile tissue)
Cebuano
1 entries- kusog noun (contractile tissue)
Central Melanau
1 entries- wat noun (contractile tissue)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- pasú·ka noun (contractile tissue)
Chechen
1 entries- дилха noun (contractile tissue)
Chinese
2 entries- 筋肉 noun (contractile tissue)
- 肌肉 noun (contractile tissue)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 筋肉 noun (contractile tissue)
- 肌肉 noun (contractile tissue)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 力量 noun (strength, force)
- 筋肉 noun (contractile tissue)
- 筋肉 noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- 肌肉 noun (contractile tissue)
Chuvash
2 entries- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
- сенкерле noun (contractile tissue)
Czech
1 entries- sval noun (contractile tissue)
Danish
1 entries- muskel noun (contractile tissue)
Dutch
2 entries- spier noun (contractile tissue)
- spier noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Egyptian
1 entries- D52:X1-T14-T14-X1:F51 noun (contractile tissue)
Erzya
1 entries- пукшо noun (contractile tissue)
Esperanto
1 entries- muskolo noun (contractile tissue)
Estonian
1 entries- lihas noun (contractile tissue)
Faroese
1 entries- vøddi noun (contractile tissue)
Finnish
4 entries- lihas noun (contractile tissue)
- lihas noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- lihas noun (well-developed physique)
- lihaskudos noun (contractile tissue)
French
2 entries- muscle noun (contractile tissue)
- muscle noun (strength, force)
Friulian
1 entries- muscul noun (contractile tissue)
Galician
2 entries- músculo noun (contractile tissue)
- músculo noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Georgian
1 entries- კუნთი noun (contractile tissue)
German
2 entries- Muskel noun (contractile tissue)
- Muskel noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Greek
4 entries- δύναμη noun (strength, force)
- μυς noun (contractile tissue)
- μυς noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- ρώμη noun (strength, force)
Gujarati
2 entries- સ્નાયુ noun (contractile tissue)
- સ્નાયુ noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- misk noun (contractile tissue)
Hebrew
1 entries- שְׁרִיר noun (contractile tissue)
Hindi
3 entries- पेशी noun (contractile tissue)
- मांसपेशी noun (contractile tissue)
- मांसपेशी noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Hungarian
2 entries- izom noun (contractile tissue)
- izom noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Icelandic
3 entries- styrkur noun (strength, force)
- vöðvi noun (contractile tissue)
- vöðvi noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Ido
1 entries- muskulo noun (contractile tissue)
Indonesian
1 entries- otot noun (contractile tissue)
Ingrian
2 entries- muskula noun (contractile tissue)
- muskula noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Irish
2 entries- matán noun (contractile tissue)
- matán noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Italian
1 entries- muscolo noun (contractile tissue)
Japanese
3 entries- 筋 noun (contractile tissue)
- 筋肉 noun (contractile tissue)
- 筋肉 noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Javanese
1 entries- otot noun (contractile tissue)
Kalmyk
2 entries- бульчң noun (contractile tissue)
- бульчң noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Kannada
1 entries- ಸ್ನಾಯು noun (contractile tissue)
Kazakh
1 entries- бұлшықет noun (contractile tissue)
Khmer
1 entries- សាច់ដុំ noun (contractile tissue)
Korean
1 entries- 근육 noun (contractile tissue)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- булчуң noun (contractile tissue)
- булчуң эт noun (contractile tissue)
- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
Lao
2 entries- ກ້າມ noun (contractile tissue)
- ເນຶ້ອກ້າມ noun (contractile tissue)
Latin
3 entries- musculus noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- mūsculus noun (contractile tissue)
- torus noun (contractile tissue)
Latvian
3 entries- muskulis noun (contractile tissue)
- muskulis noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- spēks noun (strength, force)
Lithuanian
1 entries- raumuo noun (contractile tissue)
Low German
1 entries- Muskel noun (contractile tissue)
Macedonian
1 entries- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
Malagasy
1 entries- ozatra noun (contractile tissue)
Malay
2 entries- otot noun (contractile tissue)
- otot noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Malayalam
1 entries- പേശി noun (contractile tissue)
Maltese
2 entries- muskolu noun (contractile tissue)
- muskolu noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Marathi
1 entries- स्नायू noun (contractile tissue)
Middle English
1 entries- muscle noun (contractile tissue)
Mongolian
2 entries- булчин noun (contractile tissue)
- хүч тамир noun (contractile tissue)
Munsee
1 entries- wchéht noun (contractile tissue)
Māori
3 entries- ia noun (contractile tissue)
- ua noun (contractile tissue)
- uaua noun (contractile tissue)
Navajo
1 entries- adoh noun (contractile tissue)
Norman
2 entries- muscle noun (contractile tissue)
- muscle noun (strength, force)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- ezalet noun (contractile tissue)
- masûlke noun (contractile tissue)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- muskel noun (contractile tissue)
Occitan
1 entries- muscle noun (contractile tissue)
Odia
1 entries- ପେଶୀ noun (contractile tissue)
Ojibwe
1 entries- mashkawiziiwin noun (contractile tissue)
Old English
1 entries- līra noun (contractile tissue)
Old Javanese
1 entries- hotot noun (contractile tissue)
Pashto
1 entries- عضله noun (contractile tissue)
Persian
3 entries- عَضُلِه noun (contractile tissue)
- ماهیچِه noun (contractile tissue)
- موشَک noun (contractile tissue)
Polabian
1 entries- moiskă noun (contractile tissue)
Polish
4 entries- mięsień noun (contractile tissue)
- mięśnie noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- muskulatura noun (well-developed physique)
- muskuł noun (contractile tissue)
Portuguese
4 entries- força noun (strength, force)
- musculatura noun (well-developed physique)
- músculo noun (contractile tissue)
- músculo noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Romanian
2 entries- mușchi noun (contractile tissue)
- mușchi noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Romansch
2 entries- muscal noun (contractile tissue)
- muscul noun (contractile tissue)
Russian
4 entries- му́скул noun (contractile tissue)
- му́скул noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- му́скул noun (strength, force)
- мускулату́ра noun (well-developed physique)
Samoan
2 entries- maso noun (contractile tissue)
- maso noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Sanskrit
2 entries- पेशी noun (contractile tissue)
- स्नायु noun (contractile tissue)
Sardinian
1 entries- musculu noun (contractile tissue)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mìšīć noun (contractile tissue)
- mìšīć noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- mìšīć noun (strength, force)
- мѝшӣћ noun (contractile tissue)
Slovak
1 entries- sval noun (contractile tissue)
Slovene
2 entries- mišica noun (contractile tissue)
- mišica noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Southern Altai
1 entries- балтыр noun (contractile tissue)
Spanish
3 entries- murecillo noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- músculo noun (contractile tissue)
- músculo noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Sundanese
1 entries- otot noun (contractile tissue)
Swahili
3 entries- msuli noun (contractile tissue)
- msuli noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- msuli verb (use force to make progress)
Swedish
2 entries- muskel noun (contractile tissue)
- muskel noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Tagalog
2 entries- kalamnan noun (contractile tissue)
- masel noun (contractile tissue)
Tajik
3 entries- азала noun (contractile tissue)
- моҳича noun (contractile tissue)
- мушак noun (contractile tissue)
Tamil
1 entries- தசை noun (contractile tissue)
Tatar
1 entries- мускул noun (contractile tissue)
Telugu
3 entries- కండ noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- కండబలం noun (strength, force)
- కండరం noun (contractile tissue)
Tetum
4 entries- múskulu noun (contractile tissue)
- múskulu noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- uat noun (contractile tissue)
- uat noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Thai
2 entries- กล้าม noun (contractile tissue)
- กล้ามเนื้อ noun (contractile tissue)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཤ་ཤེད noun (contractile tissue)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ጭዋዳ noun (contractile tissue)
Tocharian B
2 entries- passoñ noun (contractile tissue)
- passoñ noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Tongan
2 entries- uoua noun (contractile tissue)
- uoua noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Turkish
2 entries- adale noun (contractile tissue)
- kas noun (contractile tissue)
Turkmen
1 entries- muskul noun (contractile tissue)
Ukrainian
3 entries- м'яз noun (contractile tissue)
- му́скул noun (contractile tissue)
- мускулату́ра noun (well-developed physique)
Urdu
1 entries- عَضْلَہ noun (contractile tissue)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇسكۇل noun (contractile tissue)
Uzbek
3 entries- et noun (contractile tissue)
- mushak noun (contractile tissue)
- muskul noun (contractile tissue)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bắp thịt noun (contractile tissue)
- cơ noun (contractile tissue)
- cơ bắp noun (contractile tissue)
Volapük
1 entries- muskul noun (contractile tissue)
Walloon
4 entries- musse noun (contractile tissue)
- musse noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- nier (unformally) noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
- tchå noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Welsh
2 entries- cyhyr noun (contractile tissue)
- cyhyryn noun (organ composed of muscle tissue)
Yakut
1 entries- былчыҥ noun (contractile tissue)
Yiddish
1 entries- מוסקל noun (contractile tissue)
Yoruba
1 entries- iṣan noun (contractile tissue)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Hence 50 percent of the muscle can give way to fat.
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The cat didn't move a muscle.
Source: tatoeba (35810)
Each muscle shows perfect teamwork.
Source: tatoeba (43059)
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