"hamstring" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hamstrings [plural]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-noun}} hamstring (plural hamstrings)
  1. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (great tendon): وَتَر اَلْمَأْبَض (watar al-maʔbaḍ) [masculine] (Arabic), колянно сухожилие (koljanno suhožilie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), hase (Danish), takareiden lihas (Finnish), ischio-jambier [masculine] (French), Hüftgelenkextensoren [masculine, plural] (German), ischiocrurale Muskulatur [feminine] (German), rückseitige Oberschenkelmuskulatur [feminine] (German), térdín (Hungarian), teannán ioscaide [masculine] (Irish), iohere kātete (Maori), Hakesän [feminine] (Plautdietsch), подколе́нное сухожи́лие (podkolénnoje suxožílije) [neuter] (Russian), поджи́лки (podžílki) [colloquial, feminine, plural] (Russian), knäsena [common-gender] (Swedish), hassena [common-gender] (Swedish), litid sa alakalakan (Tagalog), llinyn y gar [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-noun-6rAcuWte Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'great tendon': 70 30
  2. (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles. Tags: informal Synonyms: hams, hammy, hammie
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-noun-wsg2S4aN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 58 15 7

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hamstrings [present, singular, third-person], hamstringing [participle, present], hamstrung [participle, past], hamstrung [past], hamstringed [participle, past], hamstringed [past]
Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ Etymology: ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Etymology templates: {{affix|en|ham|string|gloss1=region back of the knee joint|id1=anatomy}} ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string Head templates: {{en-verb|hamstrings|hamstringing|hamstrung|past2=hamstringed}} hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)
  1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough. Tags: transitive Synonyms: hock, hough, hox
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-PULAwwUt
  2. (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. Tags: figuratively, transitive Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable Translations (to disable): عَقَرَ (ʕaqara) (Arabic), осакатявам (osakatjavam) (Bulgarian), контузвам (kontuzvam) (Bulgarian), lamaannuttaa (Finnish), rampauttaa (Finnish), paralyser (French), speir (Irish), سڭیرلمك (siñirlemek) (Ottoman Turkish), sinirlemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-hamstring-en-verb-YbB0V9uy Disambiguation of 'to disable': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: disable

Noun [Swedish]

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], hamstring [indefinite, nominative, uncountable], hamstringen [definite, nominative, uncountable], hamstrings [genitive, indefinite, uncountable], hamstringens [definite, genitive, uncountable]
Etymology: hamstra + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|sv|hamstra|ing|id2=verbal noun}} hamstra + -ing Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} hamstring c, {{sv-noun|c}} hamstring c Inflection templates: {{sv-decl-noun|hamstring|hamstringen|-|-|hamstrings|hamstringens|-|-|base=hamstring|definitions=|gender=Common|uncountable=yes}}
  1. hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks) Tags: common-gender Related terms: hamster, hamstrare, hamstringsvåg

Inflected forms

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        "id1": "anatomy"
      },
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      "name": "affix"
    }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Anatomy"
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        "One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh."
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          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
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          "tendon"
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          "ham",
          "ham"
        ]
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        "(anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh."
      ],
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        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23",
          "text": "Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.",
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        }
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        "The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles."
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        [
          "biceps femoris",
          "biceps femoris"
        ],
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          "semimembranosus",
          "semimembranosus"
        ],
        [
          "semitendinosus",
          "semitendinosus"
        ],
        [
          "muscles",
          "muscles"
        ]
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        "(informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "hams"
        },
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          "word": "hammy"
        },
        {
          "word": "hammie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æmstɹɪŋ"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "watar al-maʔbaḍ",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "وَتَر اَلْمَأْبَض"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "koljanno suhožilie",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "колянно сухожилие"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "word": "hase"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "word": "takareiden lihas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ischio-jambier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Hüftgelenkextensoren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ischiocrurale Muskulatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rückseitige Oberschenkelmuskulatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "word": "térdín"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teannán ioscaide"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "word": "iohere kātete"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hakesän"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podkolénnoje suxožílije",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подколе́нное сухожи́лие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podžílki",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "поджи́лки"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "knäsena"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hassena"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "word": "litid sa alakalakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "great tendon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "llinyn y gar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hamstring"
}

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    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/æmstɹɪŋ",
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  ],
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    }
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "hamstringing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstrung",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstrung",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
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    }
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      "word": "disable"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        "To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough."
      ],
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        [
          "lame",
          "lame"
        ],
        [
          "disable",
          "disable"
        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
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        [
          "tendon",
          "tendon"
        ],
        [
          "ham",
          "ham"
        ],
        [
          "knee",
          "knee"
        ],
        [
          "hough",
          "hough"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "hock"
        },
        {
          "word": "hough"
        },
        {
          "word": "hox"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable."
      ],
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        [
          "cripple",
          "cripple"
        ],
        [
          "incapacitate",
          "incapacitate"
        ],
        [
          "disable",
          "disable"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "cripple"
        },
        {
          "word": "incapacitate"
        },
        {
          "word": "disable"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æmstɹɪŋ"
    },
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hamstring.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕaqara",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "عَقَرَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "osakatjavam",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "осакатявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kontuzvam",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "контузвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "lamaannuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "rampauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "paralyser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "speir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "siñirlemek",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "سڭیرلمك"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to disable",
      "word": "sinirlemek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hamstring"
}

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        "2": "hamstra",
        "3": "ing",
        "id2": "verbal noun"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "hamstra + -ing",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sv-noun-unc-irreg-c",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstring",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "nominative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstringen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstrings",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hamstringens",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "g": "c",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
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      "expansion": "hamstring c",
      "name": "head"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c"
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        "4": "-",
        "5": "hamstrings",
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        "8": "-",
        "base": "hamstring",
        "definitions": "",
        "gender": "Common",
        "uncountable": "yes"
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  "lang_code": "sv",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "hamster"
    },
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      "word": "hamstrare"
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    {
      "word": "hamstringsvåg"
    }
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      "categories": [
        "Swedish common-gender nouns",
        "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swedish lemmas",
        "Swedish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Swedish nouns",
        "Swedish terms suffixed with -ing (verbal noun)"
      ],
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        "hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks)"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "hoarding"
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      ],
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  ],
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}

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