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Arm — 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.
  • bracket noun A support fixed to a wall or frame that holds up a shelf or other object.
  • deprived adj Lacking the basic necessities or comforts most people have; disadvantaged.
  • foul adj Dirty, disgusting, or unpleasant, especially in smell or taste.
  • impoverish verb To make poor.
  • indigent adj Very poor; lacking the basic resources needed to live.
  • narrow adj Having a small width compared to length; not wide.
  • poor adj Having little money or few possessions.
  • prong noun A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.

Senses

Arm is used for these senses in English:

  • bracket A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
  • bracket (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
  • deprived Subject to deprivation; poor.
  • foul (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
  • impoverish (transitive) To make poor.
  • indigent Poor; destitute; in need.
  • narrow (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
  • poor Of low quality.

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.

bracket — full definition

  1. noun A support fixed to a wall or frame that holds up a shelf or other object.
  2. noun One of a pair of punctuation marks — such as ( ) or [ ] — used to enclose extra information or set apart a section of text or a mathematical expression.
  3. noun A category or range that something falls into, especially for income, age, or a tournament.
  4. verb To group things together as belonging to the same category.

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