Synonyms of the word

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.

appendage

• n. an external body part that projects from the body.
• n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
• n. a part that is joined to something larger.

arc

• n. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and…
• n. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of an other curve.
• n. A curve, in general.
• n. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
• n. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between…
• n. A story arc.
• n. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
• n. (graph theory) A directed edge.
• n. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
• v. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
• v. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

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.

border

• n. The outer edge of something.
• n. A decorative strip around the edge of something.
• n. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
• n. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
• n. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance…
• v. (transitive) To put a border on something.
• v. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
• v. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

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…

edge

• n. The boundary line of a surface.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
• n. An advantage.
• n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
• n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
• n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
• v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

extremity

• n. The most extreme or furthest point of something.
• n. An extreme measure.
• n. A hand or foot.
• n. A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing).

member

• n. One who officially belongs to a group.
• n. A part of a whole.
• n. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
• n. The penis.
• n. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
• n. (set theory) An element of a set.
• n. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a…
• n. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
• n. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
• n. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.
• v. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
• v. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

portion

• n. An allocated amount.
• n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
• n. One's fate; lot.
• n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
• n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
• v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
• v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

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.