Limb vs Soul - What's the difference?
limb | soul |
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs .
A branch of a tree.
(lb) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
(lb) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
(lb) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun or moon.
The graduated margin of an arc or circle in an instrument for measuring angles.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
To supply with limbs.
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(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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The spirit or essence of anything.
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, title= Life, energy, vigor.
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(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
As a noun limb
is a major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing) or limb can be (astronomy) the apparent visual edge of a celestial body.As a verb limb
is to remove the limbs from an animal or tree.As an adjective soul is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lim, from (etyl) . The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go out on a limbVerb
(en verb)- They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
- Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* delimbEtymology 2
From (etyl) limbus , "border".Noun
(en noun)- solar limb
See also
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* English terms with multiple etymologiessoul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.