Definition of Arm

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Definition of Arm

Arm

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

Anything resembling an arm

The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

A branch of a tree.

A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.

An inlet of water from the sea.

A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.

Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.

A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.

A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.

To furnish with arms or limbs.

To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.

To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.

Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

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Arm Quotations

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Spike Milligan

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Quentin Tarantino

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
Roald Dahl

Arm Translations

arm in Afrikaans is arm
arm in Danish is arm
arm in Dutch is bewapenen, wapenen
arm in French is armez, arment, armer, armons, pauvre, bras
arm in German is Arm {m}, Arm {m}, Armlehne {f}, Abzweigung {f}
arm in Italian is regolare, manica, armare, povero
arm in Latin is armo
arm in Norwegian is arm
arm in Spanish is brazo

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