What does ARM mean?

Definitions for ARM
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. armnoun

    a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb

  2. arm, branch, limbnoun

    any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

    "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"

  3. weapon, arm, weapon systemnoun

    any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

    "he was licensed to carry a weapon"

  4. armnoun

    the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person

  5. branch, subdivision, armnoun

    a division of some larger or more complex organization

    "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"

  6. sleeve, armverb

    the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm

  7. arm, build up, fortify, girdverb

    prepare oneself for a military confrontation

    "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"

  8. armverb

    supply with arms

    "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Armnoun

    Etymology: earm, eorm, Sax.

    If I have lift up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate, then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. Job, xxxi. 21.

    Like helpless friends, who view from shore
    The labouring ship, and hear the tempest roar,
    So stood they with their arms across. Dryden.

    The trees spred out their arms to shade her face,
    But she on elbow lean’d. Philip Sidney.

    Hide me, ye forests, in your closest bowers,
    Where the tall oak his spreading arms entwines,
    And with the beech a mutual shade combines. John Gay.

    Full in the centre of the sacred wood,
    An arm ariseth of the Stygian flood. John Dryden, Æneid.

    We have yet seen but an arm of this sea of beauty. John Norris.

    Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Jer. xvii. 5.

    O God, thy arm was here!
    And not to us, but to thy arm alone,
    Ascribe we all. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

  2. To ARMverb

    Etymology: armo, Lat.

    And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. Gen. xiv. 14.

    True conscious honour is to feel no sin;
    He’s arm’d without, that’s innocent within. Alexander Pope.

    Their wounded steeds
    Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters. William Shakespeare, H. V.

    You must arm your hook with the line in the inside of it. Izaak Walton, Angler.

    Having wasted the callus, I left off those tents, and dressed it with others armed with digestives. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

  3. To ARMverb

    Think we king Harry strong;
    And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him. William Shakespeare, H. V.

    His servant, throughly arm’d against such coverture,
    Reported unto all, that he was sure
    A noble gentleman of high regard. Edmund Spenser, Hubb. Tale.

ChatGPT

  1. arm

    An arm is an upper limb of the human body that extends from the shoulder to the hand. It consists of several parts including the shoulder, upper arm, elbow, forearm and wrist. This limb is primarily used for physical manipulation, grasping, and interaction with the environment. Some animals also have structures that are referred to as arms, which they use for a range of functions including locomotion and prey capture. In a broader sense, the term "arm" can also refer to any long, thin part of a mechanical device, structure or geographical feature.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Armnoun

    the limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey

  2. Armnoun

    anything resembling an arm

  3. Armnoun

    the fore limb of an animal, as of a bear

  4. Armnoun

    a limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal

  5. Armnoun

    a branch of a tree

  6. Armnoun

    a slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard

  7. Armnoun

    the end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke

  8. Armnoun

    an inlet of water from the sea

  9. Armnoun

    a support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc

  10. Armnoun

    fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law

  11. Armnoun

    a branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient

  12. Armnoun

    a weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl

  13. Armverb

    to take by the arm; to take up in one's arms

  14. Armverb

    to furnish with arms or limbs

  15. Armverb

    to furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country

  16. Armverb

    to cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling

  17. Armverb

    fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense

  18. Armverb

    to provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms

  19. Etymology: [See Arms.]

Wikidata

  1. Arm

    In human anatomy, the arm is the part of the upper limb between the shoulder and the elbow joints.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Arm

    ärm, n. the limb extending from the shoulder to the hand: anything projecting from the main body, as an inlet of the sea, a rail or support from a chair, sofa, or the like: one of the branches into which a main trunk divides: (fig.) power.—ns. Arm′-chair, a chair with arms; Arm′ful; Arm′-hole, the hole in a garment through which the arm is put.—adv. Arm′-in-arm, with arms interlinked, in close communion.—adj. Arm′less.—ns. Arm′let, a bracelet; Arm′-pit, the pit or hollow under the shoulder.—At arm's length, away from any friendliness or familiarity.—Right arm, the main support or assistant; Secular arm, the secular or temporal authority, as distinguished from the spiritual or ecclesiastical.—With open arms, with hearty welcome. [A.S.; cog. with L. armus, the shoulder-joint, Gr. harmos, a joint.]

  2. Arm

    ärm, n. a weapon: a branch of the military service:—pl. Arms, weapons of offence and defence: war, hostilities: deeds or exploits of war: armorial ensigns.—v.t. Arm, to furnish with arms or weapons: to fortify.—v.i. to take arms.—n. Ar′mature, armour: any apparatus for defence: a piece of iron connecting the poles of a bent magnet.—adj. Armed (ärmd, or arm′ed), furnished with arms: provided with means of defence: (bot.) having prickles or thorns: (her.) having part of the body different in colour from the rest, as a beak, claws, &c. of a bird.—n.pl. Fire′arms, such weapons as employ gunpowder, as guns and pistols.—n. Man′-at-arms, a fully equipped and practised fighting man.—n.pl. Small′-arms, such as do not require carriages, as opposed to artillery.—Armed to the teeth, completely armed.—College of Arms, the Heralds' College, which grants armorial bearings.—In arms with, quartered with; Of all arms, of every kind of troops; Stand of arms, a complete equipment of arms for one soldier.—The armed eye, strengthened with a magnifying-glass, as opp. to naked eye.—To lay down arms, to surrender or submit; Up in arms, in readiness to fight. [Through Fr. from L. arma; cog. with Arm.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Arm

    The superior part of the upper extremity between the SHOULDER and the ELBOW.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Arm

    The four members of a Wheatstone bridge, q. v., are termed its arms. Referring to the diagram of a bridge, P, Q, R, S, are the arms. Fig. 22. DIAGRAM OF WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. arm

    A deep and comparatively narrow inlet of the sea. That part of an anchor on which the palm is shut. The extremity of the bibbs which support the trestle-trees. Each extremity or end of a yard, beam, or bracket.--To arm, to fit, furnish, and provide for war; to cap and set a loadstone; to apply putty or tallow to the lower end of the lead previous to sounding, in order to draw up a specimen of the bottom.--To arm a shot, is to roll rope-yarns about a cross-bar-shot, in order to facilitate ramming it home, and also to prevent the ends catching any accidental inequalities in the bore.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. arm

    In a military sense, signifies a particular species of troops,—thus the artillery is an arm, and the cavalry, and infantry, etc., are each called an arm of the service. The word is also used to denote an instrument of warfare; a weapon of offense or defense.

  2. arm

    To be provided with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

Editors Contribution

  1. arm

    A limb on the body of a human being or specific animal, connected to the shoulder.

    We are grateful to have our arms to hug each other.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 18, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ARM

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Arm is ranked #69392 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Arm surname appeared 283 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Arm.

    78.8% or 223 total occurrences were White.
    10.6% or 30 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    8.4% or 24 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARM' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1098

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARM' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1814

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARM' in Nouns Frequency: #180

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARM' in Verbs Frequency: #978

Anagrams for ARM »

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  3. Mar.

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  5. MRA

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARM in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of ARM in a Sentence

  1. The President:

    There's plenty of help, look, being down, having some problem in terms of needing some, some advice -- if you have a broken spirit, it's no different than a broken arm. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. You should seek the help. There's a lot of people who can help.

  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

    Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

  3. Ross Rubin:

    But design of the iMac is striking, it will be difficult for PC makers to match that level of thinness for a while unless they start leveraging ARM chips that they have used only in laptops up to this point.

  4. Jay Glazerexplained:

    From what I’m told, they have him going into the locker room right behind Bill Belichick as if he’s with the team. Goes in there, loiters around a little while and is seen leaving the locker room … a little bit later with something under his arm.

  5. Arthur Hoge:

    We have been advised that Katie McClendon wants to purchase that Thunder interest, if we have a reason to question a sale, because we don't think it's an arm's length fair market value sale ... we should have the right to come address that with the court.

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