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Definition: Underarm |
UnderarmAdjective1. (sports) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level; "an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke". Adverb1. With the hand swung below shoulder level'; "throwing a ball underarm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "underarm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonyms: UnderarmSynonyms: underhanded (adj), underhand (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: overhand (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Underarm |
| Non-English Usage: "Underarm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (lower-arm), Norwegian (forearm, lower-arm), Swedish (forearm). |
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 | Pictured is an illustration of the Halsted radical mastectomy. Shown is removal of the entire breast and chest muscles, as well as lymph nodes in underarm area for the treatment of breast cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | This a graphic illustration of a treatment for breast cancer, shows removal of breast and a sample of underarm lymph nodes. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | White woman showing front view of nude breast only, indicating breast reconstruction post mastectomy. Cicatrix (scar) is evident and extends from nipple area to the underarm. Nipple is missing. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Underarm" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Underarm" is used about 20 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adverb (general) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "underarm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تحت الذراع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | ze spodu, spodní (bottom, downstairs, lower, neap, Nether, under, underlying), provedený zdola, podpažní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | avant bras. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Unterarm (forearm, lower-arm, shank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alulról adott, alulról ütött (underhand, underhanded), alulról (from below, from under, under-arm, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | da sotto in su, ascellare (axillary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腋臭 (abnormal underarm odor, body odor), 腋毛 (underarm hair), 右四つ (sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left), 八つ口 (kimono underarm sleeve), 下手投' (an underarm throw, an underhand throw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | したてな' (an underarm throw, an underhand throw), わきが (abnormal underarm odor, body odor), わき' (hair of the armpit, underarm hair), やつくち (kimono underarm sleeve), みぎよつ (sumo hold in which both wrestlers obtain an underarm grip with the right hand and an overarm grip with the left). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erarmunday sobaco (armpit, oxter), sobacal, debajo del hombro, de sobaco, de sobacal, axila (armpit, axil, axilla, oxter). (various references) sinsice (furtively, insidiously, slily, sneakingly, underhand), sinsi (cattish, catty, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, slinky, sly, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, underhand), kurnazca (cuningly, cutely, politically, slily, subtle, underhand), koltukaltı, gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), aşağıdan vurulan (underhand), aşağıdan vurarak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "underarm": underarms. (additional references) | |
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"Underarm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Andegari, Sundaram, underard, undream. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "underarm" (pronounced u'nderÄ"rm) |
| 3 | -Ä" r m | alarm, arm, charm, disarm, farm, forearm, harm, nonfarm, rearm, unarm. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unmarred. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: duramen, eardrum, manured, manurer, maunder, unarmed. | |
-2 letters: armure, damner, darner, errand, manure, marred, murder, remand, remuda, unmade, unread. | |
-3 letters: admen, amend, armed, armer, darer, demur, denar, derma, dream, drear, dunam, durra, madre, maned, maund, menad, mudra, mured, murra, murre, named, namer, nuder, ramen, rared, rearm, redan, reman, reran, rerun, ruder, rumen, unarm, under. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: maunderer, unarmored, underarms, unmarried. | |
+2 letters: maunderers, unmarrieds, unremarked. | |
+3 letters: remunerated, rudimentary, ultramodern, unearmarked. | |
+4 letters: barramundies, undergarment, unprogrammed. | |
+5 letters: rudimentarily, undergarments, unembarrassed, untransformed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 61 72 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. .- .-. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110010 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r a r m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0061 0072 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707184678479 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, arab, arabo, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, ceco, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemán, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, húngaro, macarca, macar |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, italyanca, italyan |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ, じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい | يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, japonský, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, Japonca |
Spanish | traducción, diccionario, definición | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | tercüme, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, török, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, anglicky, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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