Arm vs Manscape - What's the difference?
arm | manscape |
The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (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.
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.
* Bible, Isa. lii. 1
(baseball, slang) A pitcher
To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
* Shakespeare
* Two N. Kins
To supply with arms or limbs.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.
To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.
To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
(figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
* Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1
To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
A view of a group of people.
* {{quote-book, year=1859, title=A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853, author=Bayard Taylor
, passage=I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manspace at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.}}
A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
* {{quote-book, year=2001, title=Earth Revealing--earth Healing, author=Denis Edwards
, passage=For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape . w'ith the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda
An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
* {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Best Gay Erotica 2002, author=Richard Labonte
, passage=no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.}}
(rare) To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
* {{quote-book, year=1958, title=The New Zealand Railway Observer, author=New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society
, passage=On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping , the Little River meanders}}
(neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
* {{quote-news
, year=2009
, date=October 6
, author=Molly Kissler
, title=How To: Manscape
, work=State Press Magazine
* {{quote-news
, year=2009
, date=September 30
, author=Sara DiRienzo
, title=The Art of Manscaping
, work=College News
* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Jen Lancaster, title=Bright Lights, Big Ass
, passage=Is it that hard to manscape ? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?}}
As nouns the difference between arm and manscape
is that arm is sleeve; a part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm while manscape is a view of a group of people.As a verb manscape is
(rare) to impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.arm
English
(wikipedia arm) {{picdic, image=Arm_flex_supinate.jpg , width=240 , height=310 , labels= , detail1=Click on labels in the image , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- the arms of an octopus
- the arm of the law
- the secular arm
- To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
- 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 reachVerb
(en verb)- And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.
- Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.
- His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
*Etymology 3
(etyl), from (etyl) (m), from Latin , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 armsVerb
(en verb)- Remember to arm an alarm system.
- to arm''' the hit of a sword; to '''arm a hook in angling
- Arm yourselves with the same mind.
Derived terms
* arm to the teethStatistics
*manscape
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(manscap)citation, passage="Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man..., is a must in this day and age"}}
citation, passage=College News'' presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping''', taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: ...Facial shaving/beard trimming, ...Controlling pubic hair, ...Embrace leg hair; Donts: Excessive chest hair, Long nose hairs, Ear hair, Adventurous shoulder and back hair, Unibrows, Wild beards... Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly ' manscaped . }}