arm

English

/ɑːm/, /ɑɹm/

noun
Definitions
  • The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
  • (anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
  • A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
  • A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
  • (geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
  • A branch of an organization.
  • (figurative) Power; might; strength; support.
  • (baseball) A pitcher
  • (genetics) One of the two parts of a chromosome.
  • A group of patients in a medical trial.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English arm (poor, wretched) inherited from Old English earm (poor, arm, wretched, pitiful, miserable), arm (arm) inherited from *arm (poor) inherited from Proto-Germanic *armaz (arm, poor, pitiful, pitiable, miserable) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥mós, *h₂(e)rmos (forequarter, a fitting, joint, arm), *h₂er- (fit, join, fix, put together, fix together, join together, fit together, fitting, then, question particle, so, take, pronounce a ritual).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*h₂er-

Gloss

fit, join, fix, put together, fix together, join together, fit together, fitting, then, question particle, so, take, pronounce a ritual

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