Shoulder

Definition: Shoulder

Shoulder

Noun

1. The part of the body between the neck and the upper arm.

2. A cut of beef from the shoulder of the animal.

3. A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula.

4. Edge of unpaved land along the side of a road.

Verb

1. Lift onto one's shoulders.

2. Push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd".

3. Carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden".

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

Date "shoulder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Computing

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Transportation

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Synonyms: Shoulder

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.

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.

Printing

Boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: -/, -/,, point, etc.; press room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.

Support

Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage.

Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy.

Crosswords: Shoulder

If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

Well, he has a new shoulder now. It's amazing what they can do with plastic (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray)

My shoulder angel (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

What? I thought you were scared, so I grabbed you shoulder. (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)

Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Maybe all you need's a shoulder to cry on (I Wanna Be Down; performing artist: Brandy)

Don't put your head on my shoulder (Time (Clock Of The Heart); performing artist: Culture Club)

Just hold her, tears on your shoulder (New Kid In Town; performing artist: EAGLES)

Cos I'm looking over your shoulder (Hold On My Heart; performing artist: Genesis)

God puts some in places of leadership to shoulder responsibility, not to enjoy privileges. (references; author: unknown)

Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)

Death Over My Shoulder (1958)

Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952)

Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Shoulder Bursitis (reference)

• The World Market for Dried, Salted, or Smoked Pork Shoulders and Shoulder Cuts with Bones: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Orthopedic Therapy of the Shoulder (reference)

• Physical Therapy of the Shoulder (Clinics in Physical Therapy) (reference)

• Precious Moments Bible, Small Hands, Shoulder Strap Edition (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery (reference)

• Techniques In Shoulder & Elbow Surgery (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Angel on My Shoulder (reference)

• Steel Angel Kurumi - Angel on My Shoulder (Vol. 1) (reference)

• Core Stabilization and Shoulder Stabilization (reference)

• Straight From The Shoulder - Jim (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Angel at My Shoulder (reference)

• No More Looking Over My Shoulder (reference)

• Standing on the Shoulder of Giants [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• JVC RSWP1WT "Sound Rock-It" Portable Stereo - Back Pack Series with Shoulder Straps and Waist Belt (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Black & Decker BV-005 Blower/Vacuum Replacement Shoulder Bag (reference)

• Occidental Leather 5009O Heavy Duty Leather Suspenders with Leather Shoulder Pads (reference)

• Ryobi 682075R Shoulder Strap (reference)

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

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This mole has a characteristic "fried egg" appearance. The eccentric papule is a perfectly ordinary nevus. The diagnostic histologic features are found in the macular portion of the mole, particularly at its shoulder - i.e. Where the papule meets the macule. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A black male doctor advises a female patient in an office. Both are seated opposite each other at a desk. Black and white photo and slides show the doctor's face over the woman's shoulder. The color shot is the reverse angle. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Shown is a head and shoulder close-up of a black mother holding her daughter. In one photograph, they are sitting cheek to cheek and in another they are kissing. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

A woman is sitting with a "grid" portable computer in her lap working on PDQ database. The view is over her left shoulder. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

This 20 year old male wore a jersey previously worn by a friend who had been vaccinated. He inoculated himself in 36 places on his shoulder and face. Credit: CDC.

These papulosquamous lesions on the back and shoulder developed during secondary syphilis. The rash often appears as rough, red or reddish brown spots that can appear on palms of hands, soles of feet, the chest and back, or other parts of the body. Credit: CDC.

Crewman Alaskin with pet blue fox on shoulder At shore camp off the PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Portage Glacier from Turnagain Shoulder 1500 feet above the ice. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Route of 17th Field Artillery Observation Battalion through Belgium and Germany 17th FAOB was on the north shoulder of the Bulge Photo from 17th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Air Force Falcons wide receiver Ryan Fleming, playing with a separated shoulder, catches a pass thrown by quarterback Mike Thiessen. The Falcons came up short in their overtime loss 34-31 against Notre Dame's Fighting Irish, Oct. 28. (P.; photo by Staff. Sgt..

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity

Then, touching the shoulder of a townsman who stood next to him, he addressed him, in a formal and courteous manner

The Faubourg put its shoulder to the redoubt, the redoubt braced itself upon the Faubourg

It was a mean thing to do, to shoulder him into the square ditch, they were saying

The coat shoulder peaks hung down on his arms, and even then the sleeves were too short and the front of the coat flapped loosely over his stomach

In the first course there was a shoulder of mutton, cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid

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Health

Pain under the right shoulder. (references)

Pain in the back between the shoulder blades. (references)

Patients control the device using shoulder muscles. (references)

Business

Online prices are cheaper than retail by an average of 30%, but the customers have to shoulder shipping costs. (references)

The weighty load of taxes and duties that the sector is thus obliged to shoulder, effectively stunt the Italian market’s growth prospects in comparison with its cross-border counterparts. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

During the arrest, Hannouda reportedly suffered a broken shoulder; in addition his camera was broken. (references)

Tunisia

Ben Fadhl was shot twice in the shoulder at 6 a.m., the morning after he published an article in Le Monde that was critical of President Ben Ali. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

Private and public sector employers have promised to shoulder this expense in order to avoid exodus of low-salaried personnel. (references)

Human Rights

Eritrea

No reported action was taken by year's end against the guard at the Keren detention facility, who in 2000 shot in the shoulder an Ethiopian detainee who locked himself into a room with 68 other detainees for fear of being punished. (references)

Brazil

The ISER report also stated that Rio de Janeiro police killed half of their victims with 4 or more bullets and shot the majority of victims in either the shoulder or the head; 40 cases clearly demonstrated execution-style deaths, in which police first immobilized the victims and then shot them at point-blank range. (references)

Travel

Uzbekistan

A dress or skirt should be below the knee; short sleeves are fine, but the shoulder and front should be fully covered. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Shoulder

Expressions using "shoulder": a chip on one's shoulder ♦ clap on the shoulder ♦ cold shoulder ♦ continental shoulder ♦ cry on smb.'s shoulder ♦ dustman's shoulder ♦ give a cold shoulder to ♦ give smb. the cold shoulder ♦ give the cold shoulder ♦ give the cold shoulder to smb. ♦ hard shoulder ♦ have a chip an one's shoulder ♦ have a chip on one's shoulder ♦ headless shoulder screw ♦ heavy shoulder ♦ hod carrier's shoulder ♦ keep one's shoulder to the wheel ♦ light shoulder ♦ my shoulder is out ♦ over the left shoulder ♦ pat on the shoulder ♦ picnic shoulder ♦ pinned shoulder ♦ put one's shoulder to the wheel ♦ right shoulder arms ♦ rub shoulder ♦ set one's shoulder to the wheel ♦ shoulder arms ♦ shoulder arms! ♦ shoulder bag ♦ shoulder belt ♦ shoulder blade ♦ shoulder block ♦ shoulder board ♦ shoulder bone ♦ shoulder braid ♦ shoulder clapper ♦ shoulder flash ♦ Shoulder Fractures ♦ shoulder girdle ♦ shoulder holster ♦ Shoulder Impingement Syndrome ♦ shoulder in ♦ shoulder joint ♦ shoulder knot ♦ shoulder loop ♦ shoulder mark ♦ shoulder one's way through a crowd ♦ shoulder pad ♦ Shoulder Pain ♦ shoulder patch ♦ shoulder plate ♦ shoulder screw ♦ shoulder season ♦ shoulder season fare ♦ shoulder slip ♦ shoulder smb. aside ♦ shoulder strap ♦ shoulder throw ♦ shoulder to shoulder ♦ shoulder vise ♦ shoulder wing ♦ sling over one's shoulder ♦ soft shoulder ♦ stand shoulder to shoulder against ♦ tip smb. the cold shoulder ♦ To give one the cold shoulder ♦ To turn a cold shoulder to ♦ turn a cold shoulder to ♦ welting shoulder. Additional references.

Beginning with "shoulder": shoulder-bag, shoulder-bags, shoulder-barges, shoulder-blade, shoulder-blades, shoulder-bubble, shoulder-butted, shoulder-charged, shoulder-charging, shoulder-deep, shoulder-excuse, shoulder-fired, shoulder-girdle, shoulder-height, shoulder-high, shoulder-holder, shoulder-holster, shoulder-holstered, shoulder-in, shoulder-injury, shoulder-length, shoulder-less, shoulder-line, shoulder-mark, shoulder-mount, shoulder-mounted, shoulder-mouth, Shoulder-of-mutton sail, shoulder-pad, shoulder-padded, shoulder-pads, shoulder-satchels, shoulder-seam, shoulder-shaking, Shoulder-shotten, shoulder-shrug, shoulder-shrugging, shoulder-skimming, shoulder-slings, shoulder-stand, shoulder-strap, shoulder-straps, shoulder-to-ceiling, shoulder-to-shoulder, shoulder-width, shoulder-widths, shoulder-yoke.

Ending with "shoulder": off-the-shoulder, over-the-shoulder.

Containing "shoulder": below-shoulder-length, over-shoulder-high, over-the-shoulder bombing.

Afrikaans

skouer. (various references)

Albanian

sup, shpatull (chuck, scapula, shoulder blade, spatula, spoonbill, spreader), mbaj mbi vete, marr mbi vete, krah (arm, bay, beam, boom, bundle, cantilever, console, fin, flank, hand, outhouse, outrigger, pinion, Pinna, side, wing, winger), hedh mbi supe, anë e xhades. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتف لبجبل, ‏كتف (buttress, truss up), ‏ممر جانبي (gangway), ‏هامش الطريق, ‏واجه (be faced with, be facing, brave, confront, cope, encounter, experience, face, head, manage, meet, pull faces, square, stand up, stand up to), ‏حافة الطريق, ‏تقع على عاتقه, ‏تحمل عبء, ‏ساعد (aid, assist, bear smb. a hand, encourage, facilitate, forearm, help, lend, pitch, relieve, support, take a hand), ‏عاتق, ‏جانب الخط الحديدي, ‏دفع بكتفه. (various references)

Asturian

costazu. (various references)

Aymara

callachi (man). (various references)

Basque

sorbalda, bizkar. (various references)

Bemba

icipeya. (various references)

Blackfoot

mottsikís. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъпало (foot, metatarsus, rung, running board, sill, stage, stave, step, tread), скат (devil fish, hang, pitch, ramp, skat, skate, slope, thornback, whip ray), слагам на рамо, слагам на гръб, ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, crease, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, keel, ledge, limb, list, margin, rand, rib, ridge, rim, side), рамо на буква, рамо (arm, leg, lever), опорен пръстен (rim), нарамвам, нагърбвам се с, банкет на път, блъскам с рамо, плешка (blade, blade-bone, quarter, shoulder blade, side), издатък. (various references)

Catalan

muscle. (various references)

Cebuano

abaga. (various references)

Chamorro

apaga. (various references)

Chinese 

肩膀 . (various references)

Cornish

scóth. (various references)

Czech

rameno (beam, branch, handle, leg). (various references)

Danish

skulder (lower side of the neck). (various references)

Dutch

schouder, berm (verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ricra jahua. (various references)

Esperanto

vojbordero (verge, verge of a road), bermo (verge, verge of a road), ŝultro. (various references)

Faeroese

øksl. (various references)

Farsi 

هل دادن (Haul, Hitch, Hustle, Jog, Poach, Poke, Push, Shove, Yerk), هرچیزی شبیه شانه , کتف (Scapula, Scapular), جناح (Aisle, Wing), شانه (Comb, Heckle, Pitchfork), دوش (Shower, Showerbath), باشانه زوردادن . (various references)

Finnish

olkapää, olka, lapa (blade), hartia. (various references)

French

accotement (hard shoulder), épaule (shoulder girdle). (various references)

Frisian

skouder. (various references)

German

Schulter (humeral, scapular), Achsel (armpit), tragen (absorb, back, barrows, be carrying, be pregnant, bear, born, borne, carry, carrying, contain, crop, defray, display, endure, pack, pass on, produce, spread, stretchers, support, sustain, take, take weight, to absorb, to carry, to wear, tote, waft, wear, yield), seitenstreifen (hard shoulder, verge), schultern (shoulders, to shoulder), bug (bow, fore, head, nose, prow, strut), bankett (banquet, feast, hard shoulder, verge). (various references)

Greek 

ώμος. (various references)

Hawaiian

krah (arm). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשאת על כתפיו, שולי הכביש, שכם, כתף (border, flank, side). (various references)

Hungarian

váll. (various references)

Icelandic

öxl. (various references)

Indonesian

memikul (bear, carry on the shoulder), membahu (shoulder to shoulder), bahu. (various references)

Inuktitut

tui. (various references)

Irish

gualainn. (various references)

Italian

spalla (abutment, back, scapular). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肩. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたさき, かた (data-type, excess, lagoon, many, model, mold, person, plentiful, shape, style, superabundance), ショルダー , けんぶ (sword dance). (various references)

Kongo

vembo. (various references)

Korean 

견부. (various references)

Malay

bahu. (various references)

Manx

shlinganagh (scapulary), geayliney, cur geaylin da, cur er y gheaylin. (various references)

Maori

pakihiwi. (various references)

Norwegian

skulder. (various references)

Occitan

espatla. (various references)

Papago

gegkio. (various references)

Papiamen

skouder. (various references)

Pig Latin

ouldershay.(various references)

Polish

plecy. (various references)

Portuguese

ombro, berma (verge of a road). (various references)

Provencal

espatla. (various references)

Romanian

umãr (joint), picior (base, foot, joint, leg, paw, peg, stalk, stem, toe), lua pe umãr, contrafort (buttress, counterfort), asuma (assume), a-şi asuma o rãspundere, împinge cu umãrul, îmbrânci (hustle, shove, thrust). (various references)

Romansch

spatla. (various references)

Romany

phikòo. (various references)

Ruanda

icitugu. (various references)

Russian 

уступ (batter, bench, echelon, shelf, spur, stagger, step), толкаться (jostle), толкать (give a push, jab, jog, jostle, jostled, push, shove, thrust), взваливать на плечи/ плечо, обочина (hard shoulder, kerb, verge, wayside), брать на себя, плечо (arm, shoulders). (various references)

Samoan

tauau. (various references)

Scottish

slinnean (shoulder blade), guala, gualann, guala. (various references)

Sepedi

legetla. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uprtiti na rame, rub (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, hem, lip, rand, selvage, selvedge, verge), rame (crank-web), progurati (push through, put through, squeeze), plećka (shank, shoulder blade), obod (arris, brim, edge, flange, ledge, rim, visor), napraviti obod (flange), naplećnjak, bankina. (various references)

Shona

fudzi. (various references)

Sicilian

spadda. (various references)

Spanish

hombro, lisera (verge, verge of a road), espaldilla (shoulder blade). (various references)

Sranan

skowru. (various references)

Swazi

lí-hlômbe. (various references)

Swedish

skuldra, bog (bow), axel (axis, axle, shaft, spindle), ansats (bound, onset, run up, run-up, start, stirring, striking of a note). (various references)

Thai

รู้สึกขุ่นเคือง (have a chip on one's shoulder). (various references)

Turkish

sırt (back, dors-, dorsal, dorso-, ridge, saddle), yamaç (Brae, brow, declivity, fall, hillside, slope), yüklenmek (attach, be stuck with, embark, lay on, lie heavy on smb., load, load up, sit upon, stick it on, take upon oneself, undertake), omzuna almak (fling on), omuzlamak, omuzla iterek açmak, omuz (humeral, scapular), güvenlik şeridi (clearway, hard shoulder), banket (hard shoulder), üstüne almak (assume). (various references)

Turkmen 

omuz, egin, зigin (destiny). (various references)

Ukrainian