Arm vs Department - What's the difference?

Arm is a synonym of department.

As nouns the difference between arm and department

is that arm is sleeve; a part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm while department is a part, portion, or subdivision.

arm

English

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Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.

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, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm , since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

(anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

the arms of an octopus

A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.

A bay or inlet off a main body of water.

A branch of an organization.

(figurative) Power; might; strength; support.

the arm of the law

the secular arm

* Bible, Isa. lii. 1

To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

(baseball, slang) A pitcher

The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.

Derived terms

(derived terms) * armband * armchair * -armed * armful * armhole * arm in arm * armless * armlet * armlock * armpit * armrest * arm's reach * at arm's length * babe in arms * chance one's arm * cost an arm and a leg * forearm * in arm's reach * in the arms of Morpheus * the long arm of the law * lower arm * on one's arm * right arm * take in one's arms * take someone's arm * upper arm * with open arms * within arm's reach

Verb

(en verb)

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.

* Shakespeare

And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.

* Two N. Kins

Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.

To supply with arms or limbs.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)

Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.

To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

(etyl), from (etyl) (m), from Latin , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.

Noun

(en noun)

(usually used in the plural) A weapon.

(in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

(derived terms) * armed * arms factory * arms race * army * bear arms * brothers in arms * coat of arms * firearm * in arms * lay down one's arms * present arms! * sidearm * shot in the arm * take up arms against * to arms! * unarmed * under arms * up in arms

Verb

(en verb)

To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.

To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.

Remember to arm an alarm system.

To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.

to arm''' the hit of a sword; to '''arm a hook in angling

(figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

* Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1

Arm yourselves with the same mind.

To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

Derived terms

* arm to the teeth

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department

English

Noun

(en noun)

A part, portion, or subdivision.

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

* {{quote-news, year=2014

, date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department .}}

* (and other bibliographic particulars), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

A subdivision of an organization.

# One of the principal divisions of executive government

the Treasury Department'''''; ''the '''Department''' of Agriculture''; ''police '''department

# One of the divisions of instructions

the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department

A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:

The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.

(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

(label) Act of departing; departure.

* (and other bibliographic particulars), Wotton

sudden 'departments from one extreme to another

Synonyms

* (distinct course) province, specialty * (division of executive government) ministry

Derived terms

* departmental * departmentally