Arm

  • (noun): The part of a garment that is attached at armhole and provides a cloth covering for the arm.
    Synonyms: sleeve
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on arms, arm:

Isochromosome
... is a chromosome that has lost one of its arms and replaced it with an exact copy of the other arm ... two centromeres (Tobias, 2011) The chromosome arm is already copied during S phase of the cell cycle ... This leaves the two long arms together and the two short arms together ...
Shoulder Problem - Shoulder Structures and Functions
... of three bones the clavicle (collarbone), the scapula (shoulder blade), and the humerus (upper arm bone) (see diagram) ... a ball-and-socket joint that allows the arm to rotate in a circular fashion or to hinge out and up away from the body ... "ball" is the top, rounded portion of the upper arm bone or humerus the "socket," or glenoid, is a dish-shaped part of the outer edge of the scapula into which the ball fits ...
One Missed Call (2004 Film) - Deaths
... and lands on top of a speeding train, also losing an arm and a leg ... Natsumi Koniishi - Arm twisted back with its joints breaking one by one until she's beheaded by her own arm ...
Micromachinery
... The narrow arm is heated more than the wide arm because they have the same current density ... Since the two arms are connected at the top, the stretching hot arm pushes in the direction of the cold arm ...
Variations - Arm Trap Neckbreaker
... This move sees an attacking wrestler take hold of an arm of an opponent and then move to a back to back position, so that the opponent's arm hooks across and round the opponent's own head ... wrestler falls backwards to the ground, forcing the opponent's own arm to drag them to the mat ... exists and sees where the wrestler face their opponent, grab both of their arms and twist around so they have their opponent in a straight jacket hold before finally dropping down to drag the opponent to the ...

More definitions of "arm":

  • (noun): A human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb.
  • (verb): Supply with arms.
    Example: "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"
  • (noun): Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm.
    Example: "The arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"
    Synonyms: branch, limb
  • (noun): An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization.
    Synonyms: branch, subdivision
  • (noun): The part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person.
  • (noun): Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting.
    Synonyms: weapon, weapon system

Famous quotes containing the word arm:

    “O God, thy arm was here,
    And not to us, but to thy arm alone
    Ascribe we all.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He gets red roses in different places,
    the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,
    the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,
    the arm like a diamond had bitten it,
    the leg, twisted like a licorice stick....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Four-room shack aspiring high
    With an arm of scrawny mast
    For the visions in the sky
    That go blindly pouring past.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)