Shoulder vs Delt - What's the difference?
shoulder | delt | Synonyms |
(lb) The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
#The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
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#*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder . The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
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#*:With just the turn of a shoulder' she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, ''Mount Vernon'', river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a ' shoulder .
#(lb) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
#A cut of meat comprised of the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
#The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
A shelf between two levels.
#A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.
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#The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
#*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
#*:the north western shoulder of the mountain
#The lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
#The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
#An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
(lb) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
The portion below the neck.
#(lb) The rounded portion of stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
#The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
#(lb) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
(lb) That which supports or sustains; support.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:In thy shoulder do I build my seat.
To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
* (rfdate) (Edmond Spenser)
* (rfdate) (Rowe)
To carry (something) on one's shoulders.
(figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
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To put (something) on one's shoulders.
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(figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
To place (something) against one's shoulders.
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To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
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To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
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(slang) Shoulder
* 2005 , F. Paul Wilson, Midnight Mass? , page 67
* {{quote-book, year=1589, author=Anonymous, title=A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Here now they cry out, that the Commaunders of our Fleete haue delt iniuriously with them, they exclaime that the leagues are broken, that their old priuiledges in England are violated, which they chalenge to belong to their Cities, and ought to be kept and mainteined. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1597, author=King James I, title=Daemonologie., chapter=, edition=
, passage=PHILOMATHES. Indeede there is cause inough, but rather to leaue him at all, then to runne more plainlie to him, if they were wise he delt with. }}
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Delt is a synonym of shoulder.
As nouns the difference between shoulder and delt
is that shoulder is The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.delt is shoulder.As verbs the difference between shoulder and delt
is that shoulder is to push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder while delt is an archaic spelling of lang=en.shoulder
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cold shoulder * hard shoulder * rub shoulders * shoulder bag * shoulder blade * shoulder check * shoulder-length * shoulder pad * shoulder season * shoulder to cry on * straight from the shoulder * you can't put an old head on young shouldersVerb
(en verb)- As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.
- ''Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.
- shoulder the blame
delt
English
Noun
(en noun)- she had this tat of a devil face sticking out a Gene Simmons-class tongue on her left delt .
Synonyms
* (shoulder) shoulderVerb
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