Arm | |
1. adj. abbreviation of Armenian | |
2. n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. | |
She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!” | |
3. n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. | |
The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body. | |
4. n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal. | |
the arms of an octopus | |
5. n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses. | |
The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line. | |
6. n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water. | |
Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain. | |
7. n. A branch of an organization. | |
the cavalry arm of the military service | |
8. n. (figurative) Power; might; strength; support. | |
the arm of the law | |
the secular arm | |
9. n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher | |
The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason. | |
10. n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome. | |
11. n. A group of patients in a medical trial. | |
12. adj. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth. | |
He's neither poor nor arm. | |
13. adj. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched. | |
14. n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon. | |
15. n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia | |
The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field. | |
16. v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | |
17. v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. | |
Remember to arm an alarm system. | |
18. v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency. | |
to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling | |
19. v. (figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense. | |
20. v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature. | |