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.
hand
1. 名詞. 手。
2. 名詞. （時計）針
3. 名詞. 拍手
4. 名詞. 関与
5. 名詞. 所有
6. 名詞. 管理
7. 名詞. 支配
8. 名詞. 方向
9. 動詞. 手渡す
10. 動詞. （手を貸して）導く
hand
1. n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
Her hands are really strong.
2. n.That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.:
3. n. A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
4. n. An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
5. n.In linear measurement::
6. n. (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
7. n. (obsolete) Three inches.
8. n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
9. n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
10. n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.
an old hand at speaking; large farms need many farm hands
11. n. An instance of helping.
Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
12. n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
a good hand
13. n. A person's autograph or signature.
Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
14. n. Personal possession; ownership.
15. n. (usually in the hands) Management, domain, control.
in safe hands; in good hands; He lost his job when the factory changed hands. With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company. With John
16. n.That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.:
17. n. (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
18. n. # A round of a card game.
19. n. (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
20. n. (collective) The collective noun for a bunch of bananas.
21. n. Applause.
Give him a hand.
22. n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
23. n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
24. n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
25. n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
This fabric has a smooth, soft hand.
26. n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
27. n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new); to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new); It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand.
28. n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
29. v. To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
He handed them the letter. She handed responsibility over to her deputy.
30. v. To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
to hand a lady into a carriage
31. v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
32. v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
33. v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
34. v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
