arms

«arms» in Mova's school dictionary: The two body parts from your shoulders to your hands… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (plural of arm: an arm, arms); noun (arms — weapons, always plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) The two body parts from your shoulders to your hands (plural of arm). tree →

2) The side parts of a chair or sofa (plural). tree →

3) Weapons: guns and other weapons (formal: «arms»). tree →

4) In phrases: a coat of arms — a family or town's special picture or badge. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and PE: stretch your arms, swing your arms when you run; an octopus has eight arms. In everyday life: hug with open arms; carry something in your arms. In history: «arms» (weapons), «coat of arms» on shields and flags. Phrases: in your arms, with open arms, arm in arm, up in arms (very angry about something), fold your arms, keep your arms inside, coat of arms.

examples

• Stretch your arms up high. tree →
• She carried the baby in her arms. tree →
• An octopus has eight arms. tree →
• Fold your arms and listen. tree →
• Keep your arms inside the car window. tree →
• They welcomed us with open arms. tree →
• Parents were up in arms about the new car park. tree →
• Our school badge is a coat of arms. tree →
• They flew into each other's arms. tree →

note

«Arms» meaning weapons has no singular in that sense. «Up in arms» = very angry and protesting. In maths: «5 starfish with 5 arms each = 25 arms» — arms per animal × number of animals.

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.
• Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.
• Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «arms» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.