(n.) The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
(n.) Anything resembling an arm
(n.) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.
(n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
(n.) A branch of a tree.
(n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.
(n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.
(n.) An inlet of water from the sea.
(n.) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
(n.) Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
(n.) A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.
(n.) A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.
(v. t.) To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
(v. t.) To furnish with arms or limbs.
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
(v. i.) To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(4) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(6) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(7) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(10) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
(11) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
(12) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
(13) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(14) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(15) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(16) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(17) The increase in the mean resting ankle-arm index 1 year after conventional angioplasty (0.26) was greater than that after laser angioplasty (0.12).
(18) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
(19) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(20) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
Armenian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Armenia.
(n.) A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.
(n.) An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(2) Canadian film director Atom Egoyan, whose parents were Armenian-Egyptians, once said: "You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's marginal for the most part.
(3) It’s just one stupid statement after another.” Large crowds of protesters gathered outside the Gyumri base, where Permyakov is now being held, demanding that he be handed over to Armenian law-enforcement to ensure he is prosecuted locally.
(4) Babken DerGrigorian (@Babken) I've been an observer in 4, now 5, Armenian elections.
(5) Writing in English on Twitter today, Aliyev countered: “As a result of attacks launched by Armenian occupying forces, our army suffered losses.
(6) The country’s post-Soviet history has been defined by two diplomatic disputes with its neighbours: a quest to get Turkey to agree that the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the late Ottoman era constituted genocide; and the search for a political settlement to a conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory .
(7) Just recently a complaint has been filed against two intellectuals – Robert Koptas, the editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose previous editor Hrant Dink was assassinated, and Ümit Kivanç, leftist-liberal journalist – because one citizen complained that the words they uttered on TV were "insulting", adding "clearly they must be Armenians".
(8) When the French government proposed applying a similar law to the Armenian genocide as it does to the Shoah, Dink said he would fly to Paris in order to break the law, believing, as I do, that strict regulation about what people can and cannot say eventually diminishes us all.
(9) US mediator James Warlick tweeted on Friday that Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev “were on track” to hold their first face-to-face encounter in over a year later this month.
(10) In one speech he brought the house down when he introduced his party’s Armenian candidate, Garo Paylan, as “pardon my French”.
(11) #NKpeace December 4, 2015 Ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh during the 1990s war, in which some 30,000 people died.
(12) Formed in October 2015, the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias, has seized swaths of territory in north and north-east Syria from Isis.
(13) The fact that 9 strains of water leptospirae isolated in the Armenian SSR belonged to one serological group was proved in the cross MAR and the test of aglutinin adsorption.
(14) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(15) Ethnically, Mosul was home to Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians.
(16) The propositus is of Russian-Armenian origin and was investigated for hematuria.
(17) When urethan is administered to cytologically normal F(2) progeny descended from grandsires exposed to ethyl methanesulfonate, meiotic anomalies in the forms of site-specific X-chromosome deletions and bivalent associations are noted in spermatocytes of male Armenian hamsters examined 6 and 8 days after treatment, respectively.
(18) Turkey admits that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died, but disputes suggestions that it was part of a programme to eliminate the population, insisting instead that many died of disease.
(19) It was a disappointing moment for Turks to learn that the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to approve a resolution describing the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first world war as genocide.
(20) However, it may be difficult for Armenians living abroad to take part in the scheme to boost this number, because many are no longer able to read or write in either the eastern dialect (most commonly used in Armenia) or the western dialect, which is recognised by Unesco as an endangered language .