arme

Noun

arm (plural arms)

1. The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
   • She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!”
2. The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
   • The arm and forearm are parts of the upper limb in the human body.
3. A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
   • the arms of an octopus
4. The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
   • […] one arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar’s surcoat.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 485

   Synonyms:

   sleeve

5. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the armrest of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
   • The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.
6. A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
   • Shelburne Bay is an arm of Lake Champlain.

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