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Definition: Arm |
ArmNoun1. A human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb. 2. Instrument used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon". 3. An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress". 4. Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer". 5. The part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person. 6. The part of a garment that is attached at armhole and provides a cloth covering for the arm. Verb1. Prepare for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is arming Saudi Arabia". 2. Supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ARM 1. |
Bible | Arm used to denote power (Ps. 10:15; Ezek. 30:21; Jer. 48:25). It is also used of the omnipotence of God (Ex. 15:16; Ps. 89:13; 98:1; 77:15; Isa. 53:1; John 12:38; Acts 13:17). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce. Mutual dissatisfaction will occur between husband and wife. It is a dream of sinister import. Beware of deceitfulness and fraud. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | See adjustable rate mortgage. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The primary divisions of the trunk of the vine which carry the bearing and pruning units. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Slender part of a machine or instrument projecting from a main part. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A projecting beam or structure supported at only one end. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | The inclined member or leg of a set or frame of timber. (references) |
Post & Telecom | That part of a time-division multiplex equipement which is permanently associated with one of the temporarily established channels. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The Acorn RISC Machine (or ARM) is a RISC processor architecture that is widely used in a number of applications. It is a very "pure" RISC implementation, and is considered one of the most elegant modern processors.
History
The ARM design was started in 1983 as a project at Acorn, Ltd. After being refused access to the upcoming Intel 80286 for newer generations of their computer line, they responded by starting up a team to design and build a new RISC based CPU, known as the Acorn RISC Machine.
The team, led by Roger Wilson and Steve Furbur, started development of what in some ways represents an advanced MOS Technologies 6502. Acorn had a long line of computers based on the 6502, so a chip that was similar to program could represent a significant advantage for the company.
The team completed development samples called ARM1 by 1985, and the first "real" production systems as ARM2 the following year. The ARM2 featured a 32-bit data bus and 26-bit address bus, with 16 registers. The ARM2 was possibly the simplest useful processor in the world, with only 30,000 transistors (compare with the four-year older Motorola 68000's 68,000). Much of this simplicity comes from not having microcode (which represents about 1/4 to 1/3rd of the 68000) and (like most CPU's of the day) not including any cache. This simplicity leads to its excellent low-power needs, and yet it performed better than the 286.
In the late 1980s Apple Computer started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. The work was so important that Acorn spun off the design team in 1990, and is now a part of Advanced RISC Machines. For this reason you often see ARM lengthened to Advanced RISC Machine instead of Acorn RISC Machine.
This work would eventually turn into the ARM6, which made the ARM design a true 32-bit CPU, while otherwise remaining similar to earlier models. The first models were released in 1991, and Apple used the ARM6-based ARM 610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA. The latest specification is ARM10 from 1998, which adds floating point support and 32 registers.
The core has remained largely the same size throughout these changes. ARM2 had 30,000 transistors, while the ARM6 grew to only 35,000. The idea is that the end-user combines the ARM core with a number of optional parts to produce a complete CPU, one that can be built on old fabs and still deliver lots of performance at a low cost.
DEC licensed the design (which caused some confusion because they also produced the DEC Alpha) and produced the StrongARM. At 233MHz this CPU drew only 1 watt of power (more recent versions draw far less). This work was later passed to Intel as a part of a lawsuit settlement, and Intel took the opportunity to replace their ailing i860 and i960 designs with the StrongARM. Today these are known by the name XScale.
Motorola, IBM, Texas Instruments and Atmel have also licensed the basic ARM design for various uses. The ARM chip has become one of the most used CPU designs in the world, found in everything from hard drives, to mobile phones, to routers. Today it accounts for over 75% of all 32-bit embedded CPU's.
Design notes
The ARM instruction set follows the 6502 in concept, but includes a number of features designed to allow the CPU to better pipeline them for execution. In keeping with traditional RISC concepts, this included tuning the commands to execute in well-defined times, typically one cycle. A more interesting addition to the ARM design is the use of a 4-bit condition code on the front of every instruction, meaning that every instruction can be made a conditional.
This cuts down significantly on the space available for, for example, displacements in memory access instructions, but on the other hand it does make it possible to avoid branch instructions when generating code for small if statements. The standard example of this is Euclid's GCD algorithm:
(This example is in the C programming language)
int gcd(int i, int j) { while (i != j) { if (i > j) i -= j; else j -= i; } return i; }Expressed in ARM assembly, the loop, with a little rotation, might look something like
b test loop subgt Ri,Ri,Rj suble Rj,Rj,Ri test cmp Ri,Rj bne loopwhich avoids the branches around the then and else clause that one would typically have to emit.
Another unique feature of the instruction set is the ability to fold shifts and rotates into the "data processing" (arithmetic, logical, and register-register move) instructions, so that, for example, the C statement "a += (j << 2);" could be rendered as a single instruction on the ARM, register allocation permitting.
This results in the typical ARM program being denser than what would normally be expected of a RISC processor. This implies that there is less need for load/store operations and that the pipeline is being used more efficiently. Even though the ARM runs at what many would consider to be low speeds, it nevertheless competes quite well with much more complex CPU designs.
The ARM processor also has some features rarely seen on other architectures that are considered RISC, such as PC-relative addressing (indeed, on the ARM the PC is one of its 16 registers) and pre- and post-increment addressing modes.
Perhaps in part because of the conditional execution facility using up four bits of every instruction, recent ARM processors have a 16-bit instruction mode, called THUMB. This is intended to allow smaller code where possible.
Another item of note is that the ARM has been around for a while, with the instruction set increasing somewhat over time. Some ARM processors, for example, have no instruction to load a two-byte quantity, so that, strictly speaking, for them it's not possible to generate code that would behave the way one would expect for C objects of type "volatile short".
See also: DirectBand.
External Links
- ARM Ltd.
- ARM Assembler Programming; tutourial, resources, and examples
- Atmel ARM processors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acorn RISC Machine."
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Advanced RISC Machines, better known as ARM, is a microprocessor company founded in 1990 by Herman Hauser. The Cambridge based company was a spin off from Acorn, Ltd to further the development of the ARM RISC chip which was originally used in the Acorn Archimedes and is now the processing core for many custom ASICs. An ARM processor is used as main CPU for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance.
External Links
- ARM's About page
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Advanced RISC Machines."
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In anatomy, the arm is the upper limb of a bipedal mammal, beginning at the shoulder and terminating at the hand, or an analogous structure on a lower organism or a mechanism.
Arms can also refer to weapons or heraldic displays.
Anatomy of the (human) arm
Upper arm -- Elbow -- Forearm -- Wrist -- Hand -- Finger -- Thumb
Running downward and outward from the inner half of the clavicle, where that bone is convex forward, is the clavicular part of the pectoralis major, while from the outer third of the bone, where it is concave forward, is the clavicular part of the deltoid; between these two muscles is an elongated triangular gap with its base at the clavicle, and here the skin is somewhat depressed, while the cephalic vein sinks between the two muscles to join the axillary vein. The tip of the coracoid process is situated just under cover of the inner edge of the deltoid, one inch below the junction between the outer and middle thirds of the clavicle. The deltoid muscle forms the prominence of the shoulder, and its convex outline is due to the presence of the head of the humerus deep to it; when this is dislocated the shoulder becomes flattened. The pectoralis major forms the anterior fold of the axilla or armpit, the posterior being formed by the latissimus dorsi and teres major muscles. The skin of the floor of this space is covered with hair in the adult, and contains many large sweat glands. The axillary vessels and brachial plexus of nerves lie in the outer wall, while on the inner wall are the serrations of the serratus magnus muscle, the outlines of some of which are seen on the side of the thorax, through the skin, when the arm is raised. Below the edge of the pectoralis major, the swelling of the biceps begins to be visible, and this can easily be traced into its tendon of insertion, which reaches below the level of the elbow joint. On each side of the biceps is the external and internal bicipital furrow, in the latter of which the brachial artery may be felt and compressed. The median nerve is here in close relation to the artery. At the bend of the elbow the two condyles of the humerus may be felt; the inner one projects beneath the skin, but the outer one is obscured by the rounded outline of the brachio-radialis muscle. The superficial veins at the bend of the elbow are very conspicuous; they vary a good deal, but the typical arrangement is an M, of which the radial and ulnar veins form the uprights, while the outer oblique bar is the median cephalic and the inner oblique the median basilic vein. At the divergence of these two the median vein comes up from the front of the forearm, while the two vertical limbs are continued up the arm as the cephalic and basilic, the former on the outer side, the latter on the inner. On the back of the arm the three heads of the triceps are distinguishable, the external forming a marked oblique swelling when the forearm is forcibly extended and internally rotated. In the upper part of the front of the forearm the antecubital fossa or triangle is seen; its outer boundary is the brachio-radialis, its inner the pronator radii teres, and where these two join below is the apex. In this space are three vertical structures--externally the tendon of the biceps, just internal to this the brachial artery, and still more internally the median nerve. Coming from the inner side of the biceps tendon the semi-lunar fascia may be felt; it passes deep to the median basilic vein and superficial to the brachial artery, and in former days was a valuable protection to the artery when unskillful operators were bleeding from the median basilic vein. About the middle of the forearm the fleshy parts of the superficial flexor muscles cease, and only the tendons remain, so that the limb narrows rapidly. In front of the wrist there is a superficial plexus of veins, while deep to this two tendons can usually be made to start up if the wrist be forcibly flexed; the outer of these is the flexor carpi radialis, which is the physician's guide to the radial artery where the pulse is felt. If the finger is slipped to the outer side of this tendon, the artery, which here is very superficial, can be felt beating. The inner of the two tendons is the palmaris longus, though it is not always present. On cutting down between these two the median nerve is reached.
The wrist joint may be marked out by feeling the styloid process of the radius on the outer side, and the styloid process of the ulna on the inner side behind, and joining these two by a line convex upward. The superficial appearance of the palm of the hand is described in the article on Palmistry; with regard to anatomical landmarks the superficial palmar arterial arch is situated in the line of the abducted thumb, while the deep arch is an inch nearer the wrist. The digital nerves correspond to lines drawn from the clefts of the fingers toward the wrist. On the back of the forearm the olecranon process of the ulna is quite subcutaneous, and during extension of the elbow is in a line with the two condyles, while between it and the inner condyle lies the ulnar nerve, here known popularly as the "funny bone." From the olecranon process the finger may be run down the posterior border of the ulna, which is subcutaneous as far as the styloid process at the lower end. On the dorsum of the hand is a plexus of veins, deep to which the extensor tendons are seen on extending the fingers. When the thumb is extended, two tendons stand out very prominently, and enclose a triangular space between them which is sometimes known as the "anatomical snuff box"; the outer of these is the tendon of the extensor brevis, the inner of the extensor longus pollicis. Situated deeply in the space is the radial artery, covered by the radial vein. On the dorsum of the hand there is a plexus of veins, and deep to these the tendons of the extensor longus digitorum stand out when the wrist and fingers are extended.
See also
Terms for anatomical locationSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arm."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
ARM may stand for:Most likely:
Others:
- Acorn RISC Machine
- Adjustable rate mortgage
- Annotated Reference Manual (C++)
- Accelerated reply mail (USPS)
- Accelerated Response Motoring
- Accredited Resident Manager
- Acquisition risk management
- Ada Reference Manual
- Ada Requirements Methodology
- Administrative Rules of Montana
- Advanced RISC Machine
- Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. (arm.com)
- Afrikaner Resistance Movement (South Africa)
- Age-related maculopathy (ophthalmology)
- Amalgamated Regional Militia (Known Space)
- American Rehabilitation Ministries (arm.org)
- Anhysteretic remanent magnetization
- Anti-radiation missile
- Argentina Moneda Nacional
- Association of Radical Midwives (UK)
- Association Des Radio Amateurs De Monaco
- Association of Recovering Motorcyclists
- Association for Rehabilitation Marketing
- Association of Remedial Masseurs (Australia)
- Association of Reproductive Managers
- Association for Research on Mothering
- Association of Rotational Molders
- Atalla Resource Manager (HP)
- Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (DOE, arm.gov)
- Atomic Resolution Microscope (NCEM)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ARM."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ARM | English | Adjustable rate mortgage | Finance |
ARM | French | Alliance réformée mondiale | N/A |
ARM | German | Republik Armenien | Geography, Law |
ARM | Greek | αγγειογραφία μαγνητικού συντονισμού | Medicine |
ARM | Italian | Repubblica di Armenia | Geography, Law |
ARM | Portuguese | Acordo de reconhecimento mútuo | N/A |
ARM | Spanish | Acuerdo de reconocimiento mutuo | Economics |
ARM | Swedish | Asynkron svarsmod | Computing |
| Arm. | German | Armee | Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ArmSynonyms: branch (n), sleeve (n), subdivision (n), weapon (n), weapon system (n), build up (v), fortify (v), gird (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: stick-on (food & agriculture). |
| Antonym: disarm (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel. |
Part | Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum. |
Power | Give power, confer power, exercise power; Noun: empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel. |
Preparation | Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. |
Provision | Supply, suppeditate; furnish; find, find one in; arm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Arm |
| English words defined with "arm": arm band, arm bone, arm exercise ♦ contact arm ♦ pickup arm ♦ rocker arm ♦ Sword arm ♦ tone arm ♦ wiper arm, writing arm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "arm": Arm Injuries, ARM Ltd, auxiliary arm ♦ BURNISHER, BALANCE WHEEL ARM ♦ Chew Your Arm Off ♦ dead arm, DUMB ARM ♦ hollow arm ♦ moving arm ♦ Parrish arm, pitman arm ♦ radial arm, read/write arm, regenerative arm ♦ shifting arm, steady arm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "arm": Proof-arm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Arm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (arm, miserable, poor), Danish (arm), Dutch (arm, crank, miserable, poor), German (arm, beam, beggarly, bracket, branch, indigent, indigently, lacking, miserable, penurious, penuriously, poor, poorly, ray of starfish, sparse), Irish (army, weapon), Manx (arm, armament, weapon), Norwegian (arm), Scottish (army, army : anns an arm dhearg, in the, weapon), Swedish (arm, branch, destitute, miserable, poor, wretched). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am Nature's arm. Her spirit (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Hand made in Italy, hand stolen in Stepney, it's as long as my arm, I wish it was as long as something else (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) You broke my arm! (Terminator 2: Judgment Day; writing credit: James Cameron and William Wisher Jr.) Hey Dolittle, What I'm doing is letting Steve think I don't hear him, when he comes for me, I'm gonna turn around and snap his arm off. (Dr. Dolittle 2; writing credit: Larry Levin) | |
Lyrics | He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm (Superman's Song; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) Come on just a little trophy hanging on your arm so (Another Dumb Blond; performing artist: Hoku) Cracks in my palm, watchin the long arm of the law (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z) Then he put his head in the crux of his arm (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Clever | What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm! (references; author: unknown) If you ever need a helping hand, there is one at the end of your arm. (references; author: unknown) Skier: One who pays an arm and a leg for the opportunity to break them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In de holte van je arm (1974) The Withered Arm (1973) Mußt du früher sterben Weil du arm bist (1956) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Arm of the Law (1932) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Kaposi's sarcoma on the arm of an AIDS patient. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Tetanus toxoid reaction, arm of patient. Credit: CDC. |  | Hypersensitivity rash due to penicillin, skin of arm. Allergy, allergic. Credit: CDC. |
 | FIDO Rover Retracted Arm and Camera. Credit: NASA. |  | Wisoff on the Arm. Credit: NASA. |
 | A lone seal's head is seen as he cruises among the small ice bergs of Tracy Arm. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Result of the fall - micrometer arm of theodolite broken off Idaho-Montana 1922 Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | McCarty Glacier at the head of the East Arm of Nuka Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Port Houghton, North Arm. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Darklit Arm" by Elisabeth Howe Commentary: "An arm!." | "Iguana On A Red Chair" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "An iguana sits on the arm of a chair. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things. |
Lao Tse | With coarse food to eat, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow, happiness may still exist. |
Sir Thomas Browne | Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | These schools will be exclusively intended for the recruitment of officers of each arm, in the proportion of one school per arm. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Eventually there may come - I feel eventually there will come - the principle of common citizenship, but that we may be content to leave to destiny, whose outstretched arm many of us can already clearly see. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I shall wear a large bonnet, and bring one of my little baskets hanging on my arm. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I caught at his arm, but too late to stop him. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He ventured to raise his eyes, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root, and put it into the basket on his arm. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She raised her bare arm and clung to the damper of the stove as if she were staggered |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A young woman dressed in a long pink gown laid her hand on his arm to detain him and gazed into his face |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | RATCLIFF, about the mid of night come to my tent And help to arm me. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Sairy took Granma by the arm and led her outside, and Granma moved with dignity and held her head high |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He has a great bundle of white oak bark under his arm for a sick man, gathered this Sunday morning |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Put your arm in the sleeve. (references) | |
They consist of a series of 6 shots given in the arm over a 1 month period. (references) | ||
Patients may have pain in the shoulder, arm, or hand, or in all three locations. (references) | ||
Business | Some unions are democratic, but corruption or authoritarian and strong- arm tactics are common in others. (references) | |
The individual administering the lashing traditionally holds a Koran under the arm and swings the whip using the forearm only. (references) | ||
Orimulsion, an emulsion of 70% bitumen and 30% water, was invented by INTEVEP, the research arm of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). (references) | ||
Children | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The police are the enforcement arm; the Social Welfare Office refers all reports of child abuse to the police for action. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Togo | Although it is nominally independent, in practice it operated as an arm of the Government. (references) |
Malaysia | There was widespread concern that the purchase in May of two major Chinese-language dailies by the investment arm of the ruling coalition's most influential Chinese party would restrict this freedom and transform the newspapers into publishers of progovernment propaganda. (references) | |
Economic History | Mali | The National Assembly is the sole legislative arm of the government. (references) |
South Africa | The third arm of the central government is an independent judiciary. (references) | |
Switzerland | The financial arm of Swiss Post, Postfinance, has been steadily growing in the past years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | In September police in Novi Sad broke the arm of a 14-year-old Roma boy and beat some of his friends. (references) |
Tanzania | Witnesses reported that Lipumba suffered arm and head injuries during a fight with FFU members who accused him of creating a disturbance. (references) | |
United Kingdom | The Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (which consists of senior judges and is functionally distinct from the legislative arm) is the final court of appeal. (references) | |
Political Economy | VENEZUELA | The government formed COMANPI in July 1996 to act as an enforcement arm of the National Copyright Office. (references) |
DENMARK | The law is enforced by the Danish Working Environment Service (DWES), an autonomous arm of the Ministry of Labor. (references) | |
NIGERIA | Nigerian law protects workers from retaliation by employers (i.e. lockouts) for labor activity through an independent arm of the judiciary, the Nigerian Industrial Court. (references) | |
Political Rights | Jordan | The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, continues to declare publicly that it will boycott new elections unless significant changes to the one-man, one-vote provision are made. (references) |
Trade | Botswana | Currently, SACU is controlled by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), an arm of the South African government, which sets tariff rates and oversees disbursements. (references) |
Brazil | INMETRO, a government entity, is the national accreditation body, is responsible for all aspects of metrology and is the operating arm of CONMETRO, the national committee that oversees the work of SINMETRO. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Zimbabwe | Although the Government encouraged the ZCTU's formation, anticipating that it would form the labor arm of ZANU-PF, it no longer controls the ZCTU; most of the leadership of the opposition MDC party comes from the ZCTU. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But "mousquetaire" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Mark Geragos | You know, it's interesting. Without getting into attorney/client, she was more worried about me than herself. It tells you everything you have to know. If you take a look at the tape, she actually put her arm on me and said, you know, it's not about you. |
Rush Limbaugh | The General Accounting Office, the official investigative arm of Congress, completed its final report and was releasing it on its Web site Tuesday afternoon. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Complaints have been received that persons residing within the United States have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries in defiance of the laws of those countries. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Torrents of blood have been split in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinion. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Great part of this force is armed, and measures are taken to arm the whole. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Our position in relation to the most powerful nations of the earth, and the present condition of Europe, admonish us to cherish this arm of our national defense with peculiar care. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | So long as fanaticism and fear brood over the affairs of men, we must arm to deter others from aggression. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Arm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Arm" is used about 9,156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.88% | 9,145 | 1,042 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.07% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.03% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "arm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Arm | Last name | 100 | 75,381 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | ARM Holdings PLC | USA | ARM Financial Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "arm": access arm ♦ air arm ♦ An arm of flesh ♦ anchor arm ♦ arm band ♦ arm bone ♦ arm dealer ♦ arm exercise ♦ ARM gene ♦ arm guard ♦ arm in arm ♦ Arm Injuries ♦ arm language ♦ arm Ltd ♦ arm of a river ♦ arm of balance ♦ arm of the law ♦ arm of the sea ♦ arm of the see ♦ arm of the service ♦ arm oneself ♦ arm pad ♦ arm pit ♦ arm primary axes ♦ arm rest ♦ arm smb. with facts ♦ auxiliary arm ♦ bacteria bed arm ♦ basic arm ♦ bear arm ♦ big Arm ♦ break one's arm ♦ by a strong arm ♦ catch smb. by the arm ♦ claw arm ♦ combat arm ♦ contact arm ♦ cut off an arm ♦ dead arm ♦ dislocate one's arm ♦ distributor arm ♦ filter arm ♦ fire arm ♦ fleet air arm ♦ gib arm ♦ Glen Arm ♦ golf arm ♦ gorilla arm ♦ have one's arm in a sling ♦ have pins and needles in one's arm ♦ he has a bad arm ♦ hollow arm ♦ jab in the arm ♦ land arm mode ♦ lever arm ♦ long arm of the law ♦ lower arm ♦ make a long arm ♦ mechanical arm ♦ moving arm ♦ nuclear arm ♦ old arm ♦ oscillating arm ♦ pick up arm ♦ pickup arm ♦ prehensile arm ♦ primary arm ♦ pull smb.'s arm out of its socket ♦ radial arm ♦ read/write arm ♦ regenerative arm ♦ right arm ♦ righting arm ♦ rocker arm ♦ rotor arm ♦ sail arm ♦ shifting arm ♦ shot in the arm ♦ side arm ♦ sprinkler arm ♦ steady arm ♦ strength of arm ♦ stretch a long arm ♦ strong arm ♦ swing arm ♦ swivel arm ♦ sword arm ♦ take smb.'s arm ♦ take up arm ♦ tennis arm ♦ the long arm of the law ♦ to arm ♦ To arm a magnet ♦ To arm the lead ♦ tone arm ♦ transferring arm ♦ travelling dock arm ♦ twist smb.'s arm ♦ under arm ♦ upper arm ♦ wheel arm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "arm": arm-aches, arm-aching, arm-badge, arm-band, arm-bands, arm-based, arm-chair, arm-chairs, arm-covered, arm-flailing, arm-flapping, Arm-gret, arm-hole, arm-holes, arm-in-arm, arm-in-arming, arm-length, arm-less, arm-like, arm-linked, arm-over-leg, arm-patches, arm-pit, arm-pits, arm-rest, arm-rests, arm-saw, arm-setter, arm-shells, arm-span, arm-spans, arm-stretching, Arm-strong, arm-twisted, arm-twisting, arm-waver, arm-waving, arm-worship, arm-wrestled, arm-wrestles, arm-wrestling. | |
Ending with "arm": arm-in-arm, left-arm, One-arm, ratio-arm, side-arm, yard-arm. | |
Containing "arm": all-arm military college, guru-arm-worshippping, stroke-my-arm-please, strong-arm man. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
arm | 909 | arm workouts | 74 |
arm pain | 502 | pitman arm | 59 |
arm band tattoo | 485 | arm tattoo tribal | 57 |
arm wrestling | 463 | salmon arm bc | 56 |
radial arm saw | 307 | arm workout | 55 |
broken arm | 290 | arm golden man writer | 55 |
arm exercise | 283 | tribal arm band | 55 |
arm chair | 255 | arm numbness | 55 |
arm hammer | 203 | arm loan | 53 |
arm tattoo | 192 | upper arm exercise | 52 |
salmon arm | 152 | arm calculator mortgage | 51 |
arm cast | 102 | swing arm lamp | 49 |
arm band | 99 | dewalt radial arm saw | 49 |
arm band tattoo tribal | 95 | arm lump under | 48 |
arm muscle | 86 | salmon arm canada | 47 |
arm mortgage | 85 | left arm pain | 44 |
arm sling | 82 | 5 1 arm | 43 |
man with the golden arm | 81 | arm wrestle | 43 |
monitor arm | 77 | stretch arm strong | 41 |
long arm quilting machine | 75 | arm warmer | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "arm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | arm (miserable, poor). (various references) | |
Albanian | krah (bay, beam, boom, bundle, cantilever, console, fin, flank, hand, outhouse, outrigger, pinion, Pinna, shoulder, side, wing, winger). (various references) | |
Arabic | يد الكرسى, هيأ (adapt, dress, fix, gear, get, make, predestine, prepare, ready), لسان البحر الداخل, قوة (ability, agency, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, stamina, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), حصن (bastion, beef up, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, immunize, redoubt, stronghold, tower, trench), تسلح (armament), سلطة (chicory, command, hold, horn, influence, law, power, prerogative, rule, seigniory), سلاح (weapon), صان (conserve, cover, defend, embalm, ensure, fence, fend, maintain, preserve, protect, repair, safeguard, screen, steady, tend, vindicate), ذراع (spindle), شعبة من الجيش. (various references) | |
Asturian | brazu. (various references) | |
Basque | beso. (various references) | |
Bemba | ukuboko. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | снабдявам (accommodate, cater, feed, find, fit out, fit up, fuel, furnish, issue, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, set up, stock, suit, supply), ръкав (horn, sleeve), ръка (claw, five, flapper, flipper, forearm, hand, mitt, paw), рамо (leg, lever, shoulder), голям клон, въоръжавам (equip), власт (attribution, authority, authorization, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, jurisdiction, lordship, mastership, mastery, obedience, potency, power, reign, rule), напречна греда (binder, bolster, crossbar, crossbeam, jig, joist, rail, sill, stretcher, summer-tree, tie beam, transom), преден крайник, дръжка (bail, ear, grip, gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hold, lever, peduncle, petiole, pull, shank, stem, stock). (various references) | |
Cebuano | bukton. (various references) | |
Chamorro | brasu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 胳膊 (ARMS). (various references) | |
Cornish | brégh. (various references) | |
Czech | paže. (various references) | |
Danish | arm (boom, cantilever, jib-boom, upper limb). (various references) | |
