What's the difference between arm and wing?

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.

Wing


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
  • (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
  • (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
  • (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
  • (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
  • (n.) Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
  • (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  • (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  • (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
  • (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
  • (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
  • (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
  • (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
  • (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
  • (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
  • (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
  • (n.) The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
  • (n.) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
  • (n.) One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
  • (v. t.) To supply with wings or sidepieces.
  • (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
  • (v. t.) To move through in flight; to fly through.
  • (v. t.) To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (4) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
  • (5) 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).
  • (6) Changes of mineral content in the approximal enamel of the teeth were determined in situ with quantitative bite-wing radiography.
  • (7) 'The right-wing bloc will now be able to unify around one leader,' said Robert Misik, a senior Austrian journalist and commentator.
  • (8) "The influence of private companies is getting ever bigger, and the right-wing government has been in favour of more privatisation."
  • (9) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
  • (10) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
  • (11) The resection included the skin, globe, sphenoid wings, and orbitofrontal bone.
  • (12) Wing muscles were removed and examined histologically at various times after stretch.
  • (13) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
  • (14) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (15) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
  • (16) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
  • (17) So again, they did what they had to and should do.” Aakjaer’s Facebook account also contained other derogatory references to eastern Europeans, a message of support for the right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.” When Aakjaer was contacted by the Guardian in January, he said that he was not “a racist at all”.
  • (18) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
  • (19) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (20) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.

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