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käsi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arm noun The part of the human body running from the shoulder down to the hand.
  • eight num The number 8, one more than seven.
  • hand noun The part of the body at the end of the arm, used for grasping and manipulating objects.
  • handball noun A team sport in which players throw and bounce a ball, trying to score by throwing it into the opposing goal.

Senses

käsi is used for these senses in English:

  • arm (anatomy) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
  • arm 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.
  • arm (figurative) Power; might; strength; support.
  • hand A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
  • hand A round of a card game.
  • hand A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
  • hand (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
  • handball (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

arm — full definition

  1. noun The part of the human body running from the shoulder down to the hand.
  2. noun A limb of an object or organization that sticks out from the main body, such as a chair arm, a crane arm, or a branch of a company.
  3. noun A narrow stretch of water or land reaching out from a larger body.
  4. verb To equip someone or something with weapons, or more loosely, with the tools needed for a task.

eight — full definition

  1. num The number 8, one more than seven.
  2. noun A rowing boat crewed by eight rowers and a coxswain, or the race such boats compete in.

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