| 单词 | limb |
| 释义 | limb (once / 168 pages) 1n 2n Willing to pay an arm and a leg for those World Series tickets? Then you're willing to give up two of your limbs for the season's biggest baseball games. Arms, legs, wings, flippers — these are all examples of limbs. But we shouldn't leave out the trees. They've got plenty of large branches or limbs as well. In fact, when you expose yourself to potentially negative consequences in order to help someone else, it's called "going out on a limb" — like crawling out on a big tree branch. Not a flipper. WORD FAMILYlimb: forelimb, limbless, limbs+/forelimb: forelimbs/limbless: limblessly USAGE EXAMPLESHe struggled to maintain regular body temperature, and he was confined to a wheelchair until he regained mobility in his limbs. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) No limb he or she can’t hit on the way down. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) With gangly limbs, big, expressive eyes and an entire vocabulary’s worth of colorful grunts and groans at her disposal, she’s equally good at nonverbal comedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper Hypo|Hyper hind limb, hindlimb a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals forelimbthe front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) flipperthe flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming lega human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle crusthe leg from the knee to foot lega structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion thighthe part of the leg between the hip and the knee arma 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 cubitusthe arm from the elbow to the fingertips forearmthe part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist prehensorthe anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths animal legthe leg of an animal hind legthe back limb of a quadruped forelegthe forelimb of a quadruped peg, pin, stickinformal terms for the leg bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia varaa leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) shank's mare, shank's pony, shanks' mare, shanks' ponyyou own legs spindlelegs, spindleshankslong thin legs lapthe upper side of the thighs of a seated person appendage, extremity, member an external body part that projects from the body 2n any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm Syn|Hyper arm, branch projection any structure that branches out from a central support 3n any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree Syn|Hypo|Hyper tree branch stick a small thin branch of a tree boughany of the larger branches of a tree branch a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant 4n either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip 2the upper limb of the bow Hyper part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 1n (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet Hyper border, edge the boundary of a surface 2n the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles the limb of the sextant Hyper arc a continuous portion of a circle |
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