Elbow

Definition: Elbow

Elbow

Noun

1. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.

2. A sharp bend in a road or river.

3. A length of pipe with a sharp bend in it.

4. The part of a sleeve that covers the elbow; "his coat had patches over the elbows".

5. The joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow.

Verb

1. Push one's way with the elbows.

2. Shove one's elbow into another person's ribs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "elbow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Slang

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Elbow

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Advice

Confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.

Angularity

Elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo.

Convexity

Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.

Fold

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Friction

Noun: friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping. Verb: confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness .

Impulse

Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug.

Nearness

Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.

Pursuit

Tread a path; take a course, hold- a course; shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course; play a game; fight one's way, elbow one's way; follow up; take to, take up; go in for; ride one's hobby.

Sequence

Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.

Space

Spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening, sphere, arena.

Support

Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.

Crosswords: Elbow

It seems she goes wild with desire if her husband nibbles on her elbow. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Back! Elbow! Shoulder (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

An elbow! That's how much I need you (The Rules of Attraction; writing credit: Roger Avary)

One false move, and you'll receive your wife's elbow in the post, in three to five working days (3-2-0; writing credit: Stephen Hughes)

There's an elbow in my ear (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

The Devil at His Elbow (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• At the Elbow of Another: Learning to Teach by Coteaching (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 204.) (reference)

• Fiddler's Elbow (reference)

• Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery: The Elbow (reference)

• Operation Elbow Room: An Interplanetary Ecofiction (reference)

• Writing With Elbow (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery (reference)

• Techniques In Shoulder & Elbow Surgery (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Elbow Pain Advanced Exercises (reference)

• Treat Your Own Golfer's Elbow (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Elbow Room (reference)

• Gi'me Elbow Room: Folk Songs of a Scottish Childhood (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• GS 2230-6 Victorian Wall Supply Elbow in Satin Nickel Finish (reference)

• JET JW1017 4" Elbow (reference)

• Rain Bird EZE075 3/4" E-Z Installation Pipe and Elbow (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rheumatoid nodule, subcutaneous tissue near elbow. Credit: CDC.

Here the GBS bacteria have entered the blood stream and migrated to the subcutaneous tissues of the right elbow causing localized erythema and edema. Credit: CDC.

Jasper Bilby setting up 60' reconnaissance pole At Station Elbow - connecting with 98th Meridian Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Christmas tree worm - Spirobranchus giganteus seen here on Elbow Reef. Credit: Sanctuaries.

Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : Pulleys being used for the exercise of both upper extremities including shoulder, elbow and wrist. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drawings Illustrative of the Cololian Method of Treating Stiff Joints. : Elbow and ankle exercises. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

No more elbow room in Missouri! : Kein Ellbogen Raum mehr in Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nudge -- the language of the elbow. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fiddler's Elbow, Thousand Islands, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Elbow, Ausable Chasm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In the bend of his elbow might be seen the leaden head of his enormous cane, which disappeared behind him.

He bumped his elbow against the door at the end and, hurrying down the staircase, walked quickly through the two corridors and out into the air.

Noah and Tom and Al squatted, and the preacher sat down, and then reclined on his elbow.

I had a table placed upon the same at which her Majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The use of elbow width to judge frame size, as suggested in the 1983 tables, may or may not eliminate the problem. (references)

As an example, musculoskeletal conditions, such as fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and tennis elbow, or epicondylitis, are conditions for which acupuncture may be beneficial. (references)

There is evidence of efficacy for postoperative dental pain. There are reasonable studies (although sometimes only single studies) showing relief of pain with acupuncture on diverse pain conditions such as menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, and fibromyalgia. (references)

Children

Guyana

In June one student suffered a broken collar bone and another a broken elbow as a result of flogging by their teachers, a form of corporal punishment in public schools. (references)

Human Rights

Namibia

A hospital report showed that he was injured on the back, elbow, and hand but did not indicate the cause of injury. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "elbow": a jerk with the elbow ♦ at one's elbow ♦ at the elbow ♦ blow with the elbow ♦ crook the elbow ♦ Devils Elbow ♦ elbow aside ♦ elbow bone ♦ elbow chair ♦ elbow cover ♦ elbow dart ♦ Elbow grease ♦ Elbow in the hawse ♦ elbow joint ♦ Elbow Lake ♦ elbow one's way ♦ elbow one's way through ♦ elbow one's way through the crowd ♦ elbow out ♦ elbow pad ♦ elbow pipe ♦ elbow rest ♦ elbow room ♦ Elbow scissors ♦ elbow smb. out ♦ elbow through ♦ give more power to smb.'s elbow ♦ golf elbow ♦ golfer's elbow ♦ have at one's elbow ♦ hit one's elbow ♦ Miner's elbow ♦ mouse elbow ♦ out at elbow ♦ strike one's elbow against smth. ♦ Tennis Elbow ♦ To elbow one's way. Additional references.

Beginning with "elbow": elbow-crutches, elbow-deep, elbow-dodging, elbow-grease, elbow-joint, elbow-length, elbow-patched, elbow-pipe, Elbow-rado, elbow-room, elbow-shuddering.

Ending with "elbow": knee-elbow.

Albanian

bërryl (bend, loop, offset, oxbow, toggle, twist, winding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوع (radius, wristbone), ‏مرفق, ‏الكرسي المرفق, ‏دفع بالمرفق. (various references)

Asturian

coldu. (various references)

Aymara

mujlli. (various references)

Bemba

akaboyo. (various references)

Blackfoot

mohkínsstsis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

колянова тръба, коляно (articulation, crank, joint, knee, leg, manifold, stub, toggle, tribe), винкел (set square), завой (bend, crook, curve, flexure, hook, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, turn, turning, wind, winding), лакът (cubit), бутам с лакът (hunch, nudge), извивам (bend, convolve, curl, curve, incurve, pull round, recurve, screw, turn, twine, twist, wreathe, wring, writhe). (various references)

Cebuano

siko. (various references)

Chinese 

手肘 . (various references)

Cornish

elyn. (various references)

Czech

loket (cubit, Ell). (various references)

Danish

albue. (various references)

Dutch

elleboog (bent tube, bow, elbow pipe, ell, knee, sharp bend). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ricramucu. (various references)

Esperanto

kubuto. (various references)

Faeroese

albogi. (various references)

Farsi 

ارنج , دسته صندلی , باارنج زدن (Nudge). (various references)

Finnish

kyynärpää. (various references)

French

coude (elbow pipe, elbow union, ell, field elbow). (various references)

Frisian

earmtakke. (various references)

German

ellbogen (elbows), knie (knee, sharp bend), Ellenbogen (elbows). (various references)

Greek 

αγκώνας. (various references)

Hawaiian

bërryl. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרפק, ברך (knee, lap). (various references)

Hungarian

könyök (bend, ell), görbület (bend, bending, camber, crook, curvature, curve, flex, long bend, ply). (various references)

Indonesian

sikut. (various references)

Inuktitut

ekusik. (various references)

Italian

gomito (crank, sharp bend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肱 , 肘 , 屈曲部 (elbow-shaped bend), エル�"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くっきょくぶ (elbow-shaped bend), ひじ (a secret), エルボー . (various references)

Kongo

kosi kia koko. (various references)

Korean 

�"꿈치. (various references)

Macedonian

lakt. (various references)

Manx

uilliney, uillinaghey (jostle), jannoo uillin, camys (cove, harbour). (various references)

Maori

tuketuke-a. (various references)

Maya

kuuk. (various references)

Mohawk

ohyohsa. (various references)

Norwegian

albue. (various references)

Papago

sihsh. (various references)

Papiamen

èlebog. (various references)

Pig Latin

elboway.(various references)

Portuguese

cotovelo (ancon). (various references)

Provencal

coide. (various references)

Romanian

vinclu, meandru (bend, crook, double, ins and outs, loop, meander, turn, winding), face o cotiturã (double), cotiturã (bend, bent, crook, curve, double, meander, turn, turning, twist, wind, winding), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), şerpui (loop, meander, twist, wave, wind, wriggle), împinge cu cotul. (various references)

Romansch

cumbel. (various references)

Romany

koonì. (various references)

Ruanda

inkokora. (various references)

Russian 

угольник (angle, knee, set square, try square), толкать локтями, толкать локтем, толкать локоть, коленчатая труба, колено (crank, knee, limb, node, offset, toggle), локоть (cubit), проталкиваться (hustle, jostle through), подлокотник (armrest, elbow rest, elbow-rest). (various references)

Samoan

tualima. (various references)

Scottish

uileann (corner, the elbow). (various references)

Sepedi

seta
u. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

probiti (break out, break through, clear, cleave, come through, fight, force, go through, penetrate, pierce, plow, poke, ram, run through, stave in, thrust, wedge), lakat (cubit, ell), koleno (knee). (various references)

Shona

gokora. (various references)

Spanish

codo (cubit). (various references)

Sranan

bak'anu. (various references)

Swazi

ín-gcósa. (various references)

Swedish

armbåge. (various references)

Tagalog

síko. (various references)

Thai

สิ่งที่โค้งงอ, ความโค้งงอ, �"ัน�"้วยข้อศอก, ข้อศอก. (various references)

Turkish

itelemek (hustle, poke, push, repel, repulse), ite kaka yol açmak (elbow through), dirseklemek (nudge), dirsekle dürtmek (nudge), dirsek biçiminde eğim, dirsek (ancon, angle, bend, bracket, cubitus, flexion, offset, olecranon), dírsek, dönemeç (bend, curve, hook, sweep, turning, turnout, twist, wind, winding, zag). (various references)

Turkmen 

tirsek (knee). (various references)

Ukrainian

штовхати ліктем, вигинатися (camber, curve), вигин (arc, bend, camber, crook, curve, twist), лікоть, підлокітник (arm, armrest), протискуватися (corkscrew, scrape, squash), проникати (come through, leak in, penetrate, perforate, permeate, seep, shuffle in, strike, work in, worm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tối tăm mặt mũi, khuỷu tay áo góc, khuỷu tay. (various references)

Welsh

elino, elin (angle, bend), penelino, penelin. (various references)

Yucatec

kuuk. (various references)

Zulu

indolowane. (various references)

ancon, cubiti, cubitis, cubito, cubitorum, cubitos, cubitum, cubitus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "elbow": elbowed, elbowing, elbowroom, elbowrooms, elbows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Elbow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albrow, ebo, ebow, ebzw, edlow, Elbio, elbit, elbo, elcow, ellbow, elob, elow, elowe, Emblow, Esbo, Lebow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: below, bowel.

-1 letter: blew, blow, bole, bowl, lobe, lowe.

-2 letters: bel, bow, lob, low, obe, ole, owe, owl, web, woe.

-3 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe, ow, we, wo.

+1 letter: behowl, bellow, belows, blowed, blower, bowels, bowled, bowleg, bowler, elbows, wobble.

+2 letters: beclown, behowls, bellows, blowers, blowier, blowsed, blowzed, boweled, bowlder, bowlegs, bowlers, bowless, bowlike, bowline, cowbell, dowable, elbowed, embowel, lowbred, ownable, rowable, sowable, teabowl, wobbled, wobbler, wobbles.

+3 letters: avowable, beclowns, beflower, behowled, bellowed, bellower, bellwort, bestowal, billowed, blowhole, blowiest, blowpipe, blowsier, blowtube, blowzier, bluewood, boweling, bowelled, bowlders, bowlines, bowllike, browless, cowbells, disbowel, dowsabel, elbowing, embowels, furbelow, growable, knowable, overblew, overblow, plowable, showable, snowbell, snowbelt, sowbelly, stowable, teabowls, wellborn, wobblers, wobblier, wobblies, womblike, workable.