Pronunciation Noun
arm (plural arms)
- 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!”
- (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.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- the arms of an octopus
- 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.
- (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain.
- A branch of an organization.
- the cavalry arm of the military service
- (figurative) Power; might; strength; support.
- the arm of the law
- the secular arm
- Bible, Isa. lii. 1
- To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
- (baseball, slang) A pitcher
- The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.
- (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
arm (arms, present participle arming; past and past participle armed)
- (obsolete) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.
- 1634, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.
arm (comparative armer, superlative armest)
- (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
arm (plural arms)
- (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols, and as I already had a powder horn and bullets, I felt myself well supplied with arms.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (in the plural) Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- The Duke's arms were a sable gryphon rampant on an argent field.
- (in the plural, obsolete) War; hostilities; deeds or exploits of war.
- See also Thesaurus:weapon
- French: arme
- German: Waffe, Bewaffnung (collective), Rüstung (collective)
- Italian: arma
- Portuguese: arma
- Russian: ору́жие
- Spanish: arma
arm (arms, present participle arming; past and past participle armed)
- (transitive) To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- The king armed his knights with swords and shields.
- (transitive) To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
- Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work.
- (transitive) 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
- (transitive, figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
- Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1
- Arm yourselves […] with the same mind.
- Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1
- (intransitive) To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- (transitive) To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- (furnish with weapons) beweapon
- French: armer
- German: rüsten, bewaffnen
- Italian: armare
- Portuguese: armar
- Russian: (transitive) вооружа́ть
- Spanish: armar
Arm
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- Abbreviation of Armenian#English|Armenian.
ARM
Noun
arm
- accelerated reply mail: a service of the United States Postal Service
- Initialism of adjustable rate mortgage
- Acorn Risc Machine
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