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# muscle

«muscle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A part of the body made of stretchy tissue that tightens…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#m1)

2) Strength: «It takes muscle to lift that». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x1)
- Your heart is a muscle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x2)
- I pulled a muscle playing football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x3)
- Exercise makes your muscles stronger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x4)
- The biceps muscle bends your arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x5)
- Stretch your muscles after running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x6)
- He has strong leg muscles from cycling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x7)
- You use muscles in your face to smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x8)
- After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/3/)
- [Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/7/)
- [Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/14/)
- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)
- [The human body has about 30 trillion cells of many kinds, such as skin, bone, muscle, nerve and blood cells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «muscle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/muscle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.