Synonyms of the word arm


ARMARMREST - BRANCH - DIVISION - FORTIFY - FURNISH - GIRD - INSTRUMENT - LIMB - PROJECTION - PROVIDE - RENDER - SLEEVE - SUBDIVISION - SUPPLY - WEAPON

arm

  • n. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
  • n. (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
  • n. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
  • n. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object,…
  • n. (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
  • n. A branch of an organization.
  • n. (figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
  • n. (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
  • n. (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
  • n. A group of patients in a medical trial.
  • v. To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
  • v. To supply with arms or limbs.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
  • n. (usually used in the plural) A weapon.
  • n. (in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia.
  • v. To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
  • v. To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
  • v. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
  • v. (figuratively) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
  • v. To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

armrest

  • n. A part of a seat (of a chair) designed to support the arm.

branch

  • n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
  • n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
  • n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US…
  • n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
  • n. A location of an organization with several locations.
  • n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant…
  • n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia…
  • n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
  • n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a…
  • n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
  • n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build…
  • n. (rail transport) A branch line.
  • v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
  • v. (intransitive) To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a…

division

  • n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
  • n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  • n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
  • n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
  • n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
  • n. A section of a large company.
  • n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
  • n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
  • n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
  • n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  • n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
  • n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
  • n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

fortify

  • v. To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against…
  • v. To impart strength or vigor to.
  • v. To increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

gird

  • v. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
  • v. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare oneself for an action.
  • n. A sarcastic remark.
  • n. A stroke with a rod or switch.
  • n. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  • v. (transitive) To jeer at.
  • v. (intransitive) To jeer.

instrument

  • n. A device used to produce music.
  • n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
  • n. A measuring or displaying device.
  • n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
  • n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
  • n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
  • v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
  • v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
  • v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

limb

  • n. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
  • n. A branch of a tree.
  • n. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
  • n. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  • n. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
  • v. To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
  • v. To supply with limbs.
  • n. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
  • n. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
  • n. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

projection

  • n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
  • n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
  • n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
  • n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
  • n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
  • n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  • n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  • n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

sleeve

  • n. The part of a garment that covers the arm.
  • n. A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
  • n. A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents;…
  • n. A tattoo covering the whole arm.
  • n. A narrow channel of water.
  • n. sleave; untwisted thread.
  • n. (British Columbia) A serving of beer measuring between 14 and 16 ounces.
  • n. (US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers.
  • n. (electrical) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube…
  • v. (transitive) to fit a sleeve to.

subdivision

  • n. (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
  • n. (countable) such a piece that has been divided.
  • n. (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
  • n. (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
  • v. to separate something into smaller pieces.

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

weapon

  • n. An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
  • n. An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
  • n. (informal, humorous) A tool of any kind.

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