Arm vs Organ - What's the difference?
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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 largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
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, title= An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
As nouns the difference between arm and organ
is that arm is the portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand while organ is a largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.As verbs the difference between arm and organ
is that arm is to take by the arm; to take up in one's arms while organ is to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.As an adjective arm
is poor; lacking in riches or wealth.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
*organ
English
(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.