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Arm


Definition:

  • (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.

Fly


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
  • (v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
  • (v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
  • (v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
  • (v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
  • (v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
  • (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
  • (v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
  • (v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
  • (v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
  • (v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
  • (v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
  • (v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
  • (v. i.) A parasite.
  • (v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
  • (v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
  • (v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  • (v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
  • (v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
  • (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
  • (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
  • (v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  • (v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
  • (v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
  • (v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
  • (v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
  • (v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
  • (v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
  • (v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
  • (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
  • (3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
  • (4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
  • (6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
  • (8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
  • (9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
  • (10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
  • (11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
  • (12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
  • (13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
  • (15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
  • (16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
  • (17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
  • (18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
  • (20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.

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