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Meaning limb meaning

What does limb mean?

Definitions in simple English

limb Noun

— A limb is either a leg or an arm.

limb

— noun one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper — noun the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles the limb of the sextant — noun either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip the upper limb of the bow — noun (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet — noun any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree — noun (= arm, branch) 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

Synonyms limb synonyms

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limb English » English

member branch bough twig extremity leg arm foot tree branch edge dismember verge small branch section end brim body wing way volume vane tune tributary tome tip tibia threshold term sprig slope indicator shoot shin share shankbone segment rim radius portion piece peak paw passage part parcel pad organ one-half offshoot off-shoot neb

Topics limb topics

What do people use limb to talk about?

Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant

What words refer to the branches?

branch bough limb twig stick stem fork

Person Body

Limb

What words refer to a limb?

limb extremity arms and legs

Person Healthy Injure

Amputate

What words refer to the event or process that results in losing a limb?

amputate amputation lose a limb sever mutilate
What things are used by a person who has lost a limb?

artificial limb wooden leg peg leg prosthesis

Universe, creation Animal

Parts of an animal

What are the parts of the legs?

foreleg forefoot forepaw forelimb hind leg hind limb hoof paw claw hock fetlock haunch pastern shank stifle

Examples limb examples

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Simple sentences

I'm not going out on a limb for you because you never helped me before.

I don't want to go out on a limb.

She went out on a limb defending him, and now she has lost her job.

The boy was very pale, and trembled in every limb with cold.

Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut.

Tom has a prosthetic limb.

Tom went out on a limb to help Mary and she didn't even thank him.

Tom was killed when a tree limb fell on him.

Movie subtitles

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's, like, really gracious.

You're like a phantom limb.

We would have been referring Susan for artificial limb fitting in January anyway, but I spoke to them today and they were happy to see her sooner.

I prescribed the drugs that robbed that child of every single limb.

JUST FOR THAT I'M GONNA TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!

REMEMBER WHILE YOU'RE OUT THERE RISKING LIFE AND LIMB, WE'LL BE IN HERE THINKING WHAT A SUCKER YOU ARE.

I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

You left me hanging out on a limb.

I can't leave him out on a limb as long as he thinks we got a chance in this.

He was made limb by limb, organ by organ.

This'll not only cost you the election, but I'll encourage the voters of this state to tear you limb from limb! I'll head the tar-and-feather party personally! When I'm through with you, you'll wish you'd never been born.

I'm gonna tear you limb from limb.

They're not going to get me out on that limb again, ever.

This'll not only cost you the election, but I'll encourage the voters of this state to tear you limb from limb!

And there he was out on a limb.

Why weren't you out on the limb?

But not on the same limb.

Turn me loose! I'II tear him limb from limb!

You know what? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's, like, really gracious.

This is Mathilda Ounce Hemingway out on this limb.

You married this limb.

Well, I proved once and for all. that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

I was. But not on the same limb.

You turn me loose, and I'll tear him limb from limb!

There's a drug called chloroform that renders a person unconscious in perfect safety. so that a surgeon can remove a gangrenous limb. or- or perform an abdominal operation without pain.

But I can't go too far out on a limb.

News and current affairs

Think of this action as akin to a surgery that replaces a healthy leg with an artificial limb.

Patients will need to be trained in generating the appropriate neural signals to direct the prosthetic limb.

Diabetes already is the major cause of kidney failure, blindness, and lower-limb amputation in many countries, and a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.

He used the example of a child born with one limb missing.

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