arm
part of speech
noun (an arm, arms); verb (arm, arms, armed — to give weapons)
meaning for a pupil
1) One of the two long body parts from your shoulder to your hand. tree →
2) The part of a chair or sofa where you rest your arm. tree →
3) A sleeve of a coat or shirt. tree →
4) A long part that sticks out: the arm of a crane, an arm of the sea. tree →
5) Verb: to give weapons; «arms» can also mean weapons. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science: the arm has the upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand; bones (humerus, radius, ulna) and muscles (biceps, triceps) move it. In safety: keep arms inside a car or bus window; on rides keep arms inside. In everyday life: arm in arm, arm's length. Phrases: arm in arm, broken arm, under your arm, at arm's length, armchair, an arm and a leg (very expensive), twist someone's arm.
examples
- Raise your arm if you know the answer. tree →
- She broke her arm falling off her bike. tree →
- Keep your arms inside the bus. tree →
- He carried the ball under his arm. tree →
- They walked arm in arm. tree →
- The cat sat on the arm of the sofa. tree →
- My coat has a hole in the arm. tree →
- That toy costs an arm and a leg. tree →
note
Countable: an arm (with «an»), arms. «Armed» means carrying weapons. In maths: humans have 2 arms, an octopus 8 arms (not legs), a starfish usually 5 arms.
In the corpora
- A squid has 8 arms and 2 longer tentacles, and like an octopus it has 3 hearts.
- An octopus has eight arms with suckers all along them, and scientists call them arms, not tentacles.
- A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.
- Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.
- Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «arm» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.