Meaning of "flesh" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLESH

Old English flǣsc; related to Old Norse flesk ham, Old High German fleisk meat, flesh.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLESH

flesh  [flɛʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLESH

Flesh is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flesh in English.

WHAT DOES FLESH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flesh

With regard to biology, flesh is the soft substance of a human or other animal body that consists of muscle and fat; for vertebrate, this especially includes muscle tissue, as opposed to bones and viscera. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it is commonly called meat.

Definition of flesh in the English dictionary

The first definition of flesh in the dictionary is the soft part of the body of an animal or human, esp muscular tissue, as distinct from bone and viscera related adjective sarcoid. Other definition of flesh is excess weight; fat. Flesh is also the edible tissue of animals as opposed to that of fish or, sometimes, fowl; meat.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLESH

PRESENT

Present

I flesh

you flesh

he/she/it fleshes

we flesh

you flesh

they flesh

Present continuous

I am fleshing

you are fleshing

he/she/it is fleshing

we are fleshing

you are fleshing

they are fleshing

Present perfect

I have fleshed

you have fleshed

he/she/it has fleshed

we have fleshed

you have fleshed

they have fleshed

Present perfect continuous

I have been fleshing

you have been fleshing

he/she/it has been fleshing

we have been fleshing

you have been fleshing

they have been fleshing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I fleshed

you fleshed

he/she/it fleshed

we fleshed

you fleshed

they fleshed

Past continuous

I was fleshing

you were fleshing

he/she/it was fleshing

we were fleshing

you were fleshing

they were fleshing

Past perfect

I had fleshed

you had fleshed

he/she/it had fleshed

we had fleshed

you had fleshed

they had fleshed

Past perfect continuous

I had been fleshing

you had been fleshing

he/she/it had been fleshing

we had been fleshing

you had been fleshing

they had been fleshing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will flesh

you will flesh

he/she/it will flesh

we will flesh

you will flesh

they will flesh

Future continuous

I will be fleshing

you will be fleshing

he/she/it will be fleshing

we will be fleshing

you will be fleshing

they will be fleshing

Future perfect

I will have fleshed

you will have fleshed

he/she/it will have fleshed

we will have fleshed

you will have fleshed

they will have fleshed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been fleshing

you will have been fleshing

he/she/it will have been fleshing

we will have been fleshing

you will have been fleshing

they will have been fleshing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would flesh

you would flesh

he/she/it would flesh

we would flesh

you would flesh

they would flesh

Conditional continuous

I would be fleshing

you would be fleshing

he/she/it would be fleshing

we would be fleshing

you would be fleshing

they would be fleshing

Conditional perfect

I would have flesh

you would have flesh

he/she/it would have flesh

we would have flesh

you would have flesh

they would have flesh

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been fleshing

you would have been fleshing

he/she/it would have been fleshing

we would have been fleshing

you would have been fleshing

they would have been fleshing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you flesh
we let´s flesh
you flesh

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to flesh

Past participle

fleshed

Present Participle

fleshing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FLESH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flesh» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of flesh

animality · beef · body · brawn · carnality · corpulence · fat · fatness · flesh and blood · food · human nature · human race · humankind · man · mankind · meat · mortality · muscle · people · physicality · pulp · race · sensuality · stock · tissue · weight · world

TRANSLATION OF FLESH

Find out the translation of flesh to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flesh from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flesh» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 肉
• Translator English - Spanish: carne
• English: flesh
• Translator English - Hindi: मांस
• Translator English - Arabic: اللحم
• Translator English - Russian: плоть
• Translator English - Portuguese: carne
• Translator English - Bengali: মাংস
• Translator English - French: chair
• Translator English - Malay: Daging
• Translator English - German: Fleisch
• Translator English - Japanese: 肉
• Translator English - Korean: 살
• Translator English - Javanese: Daging
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thịt
• Translator English - Tamil: சதை
• Translator English - Marathi: देह
• Translator English - Turkish: et
• Translator English - Italian: carne
• Translator English - Polish: ciało
• Translator English - Ukrainian: плоть
• Translator English - Romanian: carne
• Translator English - Greek: σάρκα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vlees
• Translator English - Swedish: kött
• Translator English - Norwegian: kjøtt

10 QUOTES WITH «FLESH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flesh.

1

Akhenaton

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

2

Johann Arndt

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

3

Johann Arndt

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

4

Rick Astley

Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

5

William Barclay

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

6

James Belushi

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

7

Maeve Binchy

I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

8

Marc Bloch

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

9

Uwe Boll

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

10

Louise Bourgeois

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLESH»

Discover the use of flesh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flesh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing.

David Foster Wallace, 2012

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge ...

Reexamines the Western philosophical tradition, looking at the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, 1999

Eat Not this Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the ...

Hailed as a classic when initially published in 1961, Eat Not This Flesh was the first book that explored, from a historical and cultural perspective, taboos against eating certain kinds of flesh.

Frederick J. Simoons, 1994

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-zen Writings

Creative and imaginative recollections and stories from Zen and pre-Zen literature

Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki, 1998

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American ...

Winner of the: Gay Book of the Year Award, American Library Association Ruth Benedict Award, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Award for Outstanding Scholarship, World Congress for Sexology"An extraordinary perceptive study of the ...

Walter L. Williams, 1992

The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh.

Jacques Rancière, 2004

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-- and how it ...

Describes the first examination of an intact human brain in 1663; the discovery that the brain was the central organ that governed the human body, memory, reasoning, and emotion; and the influence of that discovery on modern science.

Carl Zimmer, 2004

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

A description of urban life from a body sense perspective spans 2,500 years through ancient Athens, Hadrian's Rome, medieval and revolutionary Paris, Renaissance Venice, Edwardian London, and contemporary New York

Richard Sennett, 1996

Flesh Collectors

Misfit Jeremiah Rodgers, 21, and racist devil worshipper Jonathan Lawrence, 23, were serving time for petty crimes when they met in a Florida penal system mental hospital.

Fred Rosen, 2008

Flesh of My Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans : a Reader

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Gregory E. Pence, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLESH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flesh is used in the context of the following news items.

Woman battling flesh-eating bacteria recovering at Emory

A Newnan woman, battling a flesh-eating bacteria, reached a big milestone this week. She took her first steps since losing the ability to walk. «WSB Atlanta, Jul 15»

Flesh eating bacteria- take precaution when going to the beach

The flesh eating bacteria is not new to Louisiana. Jim Montgomery says one of his friends is now missing fingers after coming in contact with ... «KLFY, Jul 15»

A Pound of Flesh author Sophie Jackson on stepping out of the …

Sophie Jackson has had a publishing dream come true with A Pound Of Flesh, a New York-based prison romance that has attracted more than ... «Western Daily Press, Jul 15»

Krokodil: Heroin that eats your flesh

Being addicted to heroin that eats your flesh is really bad. Those understatements bear repeating because addiction to a heroin-like drug called ... «HLNtv.com, Jul 15»

Vanessa Hudgens in plunging top with Austin Butler at Comic-Con

The 26-year-old flashed the flesh in a woven black top that featured a plunging V-neck as she walked outside hand-in-hand with her boyfriend, ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Man who ate girlfriend's burnt flesh and threatened to cut off nipples …

A MAN who ate his girlfriend's burnt skin, used a knife to cut a game of noughts and crosses into her back and threatened to cut off her nipples ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»

Anne-Marie flashes the flesh in black bra as she performs at T in the …

Teaming a black bra, which had a V-shaped neckline, with a pair of high-waisted grey trousers, the Brit looked happy as she danced across the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Cover Stories: Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, 'Weasels Ripped …

The Mothers of Invention were already in Frank's rear view mirror when 1970′s Weasels Ripped My Flesh was released. He may have broken ... «Diffuser.fm, Jul 15»

Flesh up the opinion-splitting ante with gobby 'Not Gna' single

Flesh aren't going to please everyone. Let's get that out of the way. They're gobby, laddy, extra tongue-in-cheek and shamelessly hopping ... «DIY Magazine, Jul 15»

Flesh-eating heroin knock-off krokodil 'appears on America's East …

The injectable drug made infamous across Russia for its terrifying flesh-eating properties may have recently shown up on America's East Coast ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»