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limb

/lim/US // lɪm //UK // (lɪm) //

肢体,四肢,肢解,四肢发达

Related Words

wheel轮子,车轮,轮毂,轮船leg腿部,腿,脚,肢体extremity四肢,四肢肢体,四肢发达,四端stem茎,干,茎部,茎干arm武装,胳膊,手臂,臂膀branch分支机构,分公司,分部,分支wing翅膀,机翼,翼,翅子projection投影,预测,投射,预估pin钉子,针脚,针,销lobe裂片,叶,叶子,叶状spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的bough枝桠,灌木丛,桠桠,枝条spray喷雾,喷雾剂,喷涂,喷洒member会员,成员process过程,流程,工艺,进程switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机part部分,部分内容,部分地区,部分时间sprig枝条,花枝,枝桠,枝叶extension延伸,延长,扩展,延伸部分offshoot分支机构,分支点,分支派别,分支部分

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
    • : a large or main branch of a tree.
    • : a projecting part or member: the four limbs of a cross.
    • : a person or thing regarded as a part, member, branch, offshoot, or scion of something: a limb of the central committee.
    • : Archery. the upper or lower part of a bow.
    • : Informal. a mischievous child, imp, or young scamp.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cut the limbs from.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounappendage
Forms: limbs
Synonyms
arm武装,胳膊,手臂,臂膀branch分支机构,分公司,分部,分支extremity四肢,四肢肢体,四肢发达,四端leg腿部,腿,脚,肢体stem茎,干,茎部,茎干wheel轮子,车轮,轮毂,轮船wing翅膀,机翼,翼,翅子bough枝桠,灌木丛,桠桠,枝条extension延伸,延长,扩展,延伸部分fin翅片,罚款,融资,鳍片gam游戏,游戏机,游戏规则,游戏业lobe裂片,叶,叶子,叶状member会员,成员offshoot分支机构,分支点,分支派别,分支部分part部分,部分内容,部分地区,部分时间pin钉子,针脚,针,销pinion小齿轮,齿轮,小行星,小数点process过程,流程,工艺,进程projection投影,预测,投射,预估spray喷雾,喷雾剂,喷涂,喷洒sprig枝条,花枝,枝桠,枝叶spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的switch开关,转换,转换器,开关机unit单位,装置

Examples

  • They’ve got an extra set of limbs — two human arms plus four horse legs.

  • The reps are performed slowly, taking ten seconds up and ten seconds down, without locking the limbs or resting at the top or bottom of the motion.

  • Just wrap it around a green limb bent into a circle and face it into the sun.

  • A 2019 meta-analysis found no benefits to muscle strength, and another 2019 meta-analysis found benefits to upper limb but not lower limb muscle strength.

  • Her hair’s a mess, her limbs are streaked with blood, and there’s a ball-busting steeliness in her eyes.

  • Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

  • Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.

  • “We can do anything here from open heart surgery to limb amputations,” he says.

  • Some might want to be the star, others to direct, but it takes a special breed to want to risk life and limb as a stuntman.

  • So now, keeping all that in mind, how many Afghans do you think risked life and limb to cast their ballot?

  • The secretary trembled in his every limb; his eyes shunned his master's as his master's had shunned Garnache's awhile ago.

  • "You have give a limb," repeated Perry, emphasizing the announcement by shaking his finger at the old man.

  • Those in favor of hanging carried the day, so he was led under the projecting limb of a tree and a rope placed around his neck.

  • Scattergood, with great show of solicitude, dispatched a youngster to the deacon's house for his extra limb.

  • It was such a partition as is effected by hacking a living man limb from limb.

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