Limb

Definition: Limb

Limb

Noun

1. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper.

2. Any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree.

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

Date "limb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Aerospace

Geography

Literature

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Physics

Solar

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

Synonym: Limb

Bad Man

Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal.

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

Health

Unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and limb, safe and sound.

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.

Lawyer

Solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil.

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.

Crosswords: Limb

Albanian (limbo), Romanian (limb).

It's so sad. Her mom and dad found her hanging from a tree limb, her insides on the outside (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

And remember, while you're out there risking you're life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)

Texican is nothin' but a human man way out on a limb, this year and next (The Searchers; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent)

This site also demonstrates one of the great dangers of archeology, not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place, I'm talking about folklore (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman)

And, I don't care if people call me a liar or a cheater, if I think things aren't going well, I'll use the strongest Futae no Kiwami I've got and I'm gonna help you! As long as there are people who need you, I, Sanosuke, will risk my life and limb to make sure you don't die (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Måns Gahrton)

Everyone's beneath the trees feeding pigeons on a limb (Mighty Quinn; performing artist: The Hollies)

Out on a Limb (1950)

Three on a Limb (1936)

A Limb of Satan (1917)

Out on a Limb (1992)

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

Books

• Critical Limb Ischemia (reference)

• Orthotics in Functional Rehabilitation of the Lower Limb (reference)

• Out on a Limb (reference)

• Phantom Limb (American Lives Series) (reference)

• Prosthetics and Orthotics: Lower Limb and Spine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Out On A Limb (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Destroy,Trap,Lock:Secrets of Limb Des (reference)

• Out on a Limb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Life & Limb (reference)

• Limb (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Die by the Sword/ Die by the Sword: Limb from Limb (Jewel Case) (reference)

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

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

VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies. Credit: CDC.

Skylab and Earth Limb. Credit: NASA.

Hubble Space Telescope and Earth Limb. Credit: NASA.

The Lunar Limb. Credit: NASA.

Terraced Wall Crater on the Lunar Limb. Credit: NASA.

Gemini 9 and Earth Limb. Credit: NASA.

Jay perched on tree limb, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

U.S. Army. Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C. : Learning to walk with artificial limb. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"During the many long weeks of healing the patients must use wheelchairs and crutches until they learn how to walk with a synthetic limb. Shown is PFC Charles Moody of Institute, West Virginia, who was injured near Taegu, Korea, while serving with the First Cavalry Division." Photograph was probably taken at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, DC. Quoted sentences are from the original caption, released with the photo on 1 February 1951. Credit: NAVY.

Bird leaning over limb to watch laborers plowing and planting seed. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

They may repulse the present attempt, but must not revenge past violences: for it is natural for us to defend life and limb, but that an inferior should punish a superior, is against nature. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

By an accurate measurement, each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length

Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb.

He could easily conceive that a Houyhnhnm grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Moving or touching the limb is often intolerable. (references)

Surgery may correct strabismus and improve limb and jaw deformities. (references)

It is the chief reason for new blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputation. (references)

Business

A significant percentage of lower limb amputation occurs among patients with diabetes. (references)

This coverage includes orthopedic footwear, hearing aids and dental and limb prostheses. (references)

Children

Cambodia

According to the Government, approximately 1 in 250 citizens is missing at least one limb. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

Persons under age 16 may not be employed in any public enterprise in which life or limb is endangered. (references)

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

Expressions using "limb": artificial limb ♦ be out on a limb ♦ being out on a limb ♦ endoskeletal artificial lower limb ♦ feel out on a limb ♦ hind limb ♦ isolated limb perfusion ♦ life and limb ♦ Limb Bud ♦ limb of the devil ♦ limb of the law ♦ limb perfusion ♦ lower limb ♦ out on a limb ♦ Phantom Limb ♦ phantom limb pain ♦ phantom limb syndrome ♦ risk life and limb ♦ sound of wind and limb ♦ tear limb from limb ♦ upper limb ♦ vertical limb. Additional references.

Beginning with "limb": limb-aching, limb-base, limb-biting, limb-breaking, limb-bud, limb-flinging, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, limb-jerking, limb-joint, limb-like, limb-loosening, limb-twitching.

Ending with "limb": fore-limb, hind-limb, lower-limb.

Afrikaans

lid (acolyte, member, supporter). (various references)

Albanian

racë (blood, kind, lineage, pedigree, race, strain), pjesëtar (partner, shareholder), pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, line, lot, part, partition, patch, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), krah zogu, gjymtyrë (extremities, member, side), gjymtoj (cripple, disable, dismember, hackle, haggle, lame, maim, mutilate), fëmijë i pabindur, degë (agency, arm, bough, branch, brushwood, department, discipline, embranchment, fork, knag, offshoot, outgrowth, perch, prong, rame, ramification, specialism, stick). (various references)

Arabic 

وصل (member, to arrive, to connect), عضو (member, organ), ‏فرع شجرة (bough, branch, offshoot, twig), ‏كان معزول, ‏قطع جسم الأنسان الي اجزاء, ‏قطع الحيوان, ‏غموض الفكر البشري, ‏عضو إنسان, ‏الحاشية المدرجة. (various references)

Basque

adar (bough, branch, horn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръб на ъгломерен инструмент, ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, crease, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, keel, ledge, list, margin, rand, rib, ridge, rim, shoulder, side), член (article, member, part, term), крайник, край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), градуиран лимб, горния край на лък, главен клон, лимб (radius), палавник (mischief, pickle, urchin), долния край на лък. (various references)

Catalan

membre (member). (various references)

Chinese 

肢体, 肢 . (various references)

Czech

vìtev (bough, branch, spray), konèetina (appendage, extremity), úd. (various references)

Danish

medlem (acolyte, member, supporter). (various references)

Dutch

lidmaat (acolyte, member, supporter), lid (acolyte, joint, member, partner, supporter). (various references)

Esperanto

membro (member). (various references)

Faeroese

luttakari (member), limur (acolyte, member, supporter). (various references)

Farsi 

قطع کردن عضو, عضوبدن , عضو (Member, Organ, Part), اندام زیرین , اندام زبرین , شاخه (Arm, Bough, Grain, Sprout, Tributary, Wing), دست یاپا, بال (Pinion, Wing). (various references)

Finnish

jäsen (acolyte, joint, member, supporter). (various references)

French

membre, limbe. (various references)

German

Glied (acolyte, joint, link, member, member male, organ, part, penis, rank, section, segment, supporter, term). (various references)

Greek 

άκρο (abutment, border, brim, brow, butt, edge, end, extreme, extremity, foot, ledge, Marge, Neb, peak, rim, tip, verge), μέλος (member). (various references)

Hebrew 

איבר (element, extremity, member, organ, part, penis), אוגן (brim of a vessel, ear, flange, handle of a tool), אבר (organ, part, pinion, wing), זרוע (arm, forearm, sown, strewn), כנף (corner, flap, retiring, wing), גף (arm, hand, squadron, wing). (various references)

Hungarian

végtag (member). (various references)

Indonesian

dahan (bough, branch), anggota (component, member). (various references)

Irish

géag (branch), ball. (various references)

Italian

membro (acolyte, fellow, insider, member, supporter), arto (extremity, member). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

枝 (bow, branch, twig). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

えだ (bow, branch, twig). (various references)

Korean 

사지. (various references)

Manx

olt (article, clause, commissure, connection, contribution, joint, organ, par, section), bangan (bough, cutting, leg of contest, scion). (various references)

Norwegian

lem. (various references)

Occitan

branca (bough, branch). (various references)

Papiamen

miembro (acolyte, member, supporter). (various references)

Pig Latin

imblay.(various references)

Portuguese

membro (acolyte, lith, member, supporter), limbo (lamina, limbo). (various references)

Romanian

limb, soi rãu (bad egg, bad lot), pãrtaş (accomplice, acolyte, adept, retainer), membru (fellow, insider, member, part), mãdular (member, part), face bucãţele, diavol (bogy, demon, devil, dragon, fiend, ghostly enemy, imp, old scratch, pickle, the evil one, the old serpent), dezmembra (carve out, dismember), cracã (arm, bough, branch, branching, roost), braţ (arm, armful, brace, channel, fathom, hand, jib, lever, offshoot, strength, sweep, upper arm, upper-arm, whip), arc (arc, arch, bow, curve, prop, spring, vault). (various references)

Russian 

конечность (member). (various references)

Scottish

ball (a ball, a member, a spot, ball, member, spot : air ball). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ud (extremity), ivica (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, edging, flange, fringe, lip, marge, margin, pallet, rand, rim, verge), grana (bough, branch), ekstremitet (extremity). (various references)

Spanish

miembro (fellow, leaguer, member). (various references)

Swedish

lem (member), trädgren (bough, branch). (various references)

Thai

แขน ขาหรือปีก, สมาชิก, กิ่ง (bough), ขอบ (edge, lip, rand, rim). (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz çocuk (elf, hellion, holy terror, puck, terror, urchin), uzuv (member, organ), kol (arm, branch, crank, embranchment, flipper, foreleg, handle, offset, ramification, rod, rounds, sleeve, stick, stolon, subsection, tappet, wing), kanat (aerofoil, fin, flank, flanking, flap, leaf, pinion, plane, ptero-, surface, Van, wing), bent (article, barrage, clause, dike, dyke, embankment, paragraph, strophe, Weir), bacak (crural, leg, paw, pin, shank, shin, stump), aza (acolyte, member, supporter), şube (arm, branch, branch office, department, offshoot, ramification, substation). (various references)

Turkmen 

зlen (r) (article, member). (various references)

Ukrainian

сучок (bough), розчленоувати, кінцівка (member). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tay cành cây to núi ngang, phiến lá đài, phiến cánh hoa, không bấu víu vào đâu được, chơi vơi, chân (leg, shank, stipe), cảnh sát (constable, peace-officer, police, policeman, policer-officer). (various references)

Welsh

aelod (member). (various references)

limbus, membra, membri, membris, membrorum, membrum. (various references)

bâzvô. (various references)

lim. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "limb": limba, limbas, limbate, limbeck, limbecks, limbed, limber, limbered, limberer, limberest, limbering, limberly, limberness, limbernesses, limbers, limbi, limbic, limbier, limbiest, limbing, limbless, limbo, limbos, limbs, limbus, limbuses, limby. (additional references)

Words ending with "limb": climb, forelimb, outclimb, upclimb. (additional references)

Words containing "limb": climbable, climbed, climber, climbers, climbing, climbs, forelimbs, kalimba, kalimbas, outclimbed, outclimbing, outclimbs, unclimbable, unclimbableness, unclimbablenesses, unlimber, unlimbered, unlimbering, unlimbers, upclimbed, upclimbing, upclimbs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Limb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gimb, himb, Himba, imb, Lamby, lemba, libn, lidba, Lidmi, lieb, limba, limbe, limby, limr, lism, Liuba, lomb, lumb, Lumbi, Lumby, Lunb, lyb, Lym, rimb, vimb. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lib, mib, mil.

-2 letters: bi, li, mi.

+1 letter: blimp, blimy, climb, limba, limbi, limbo, limbs, limby.

+2 letters: baalim, blimey, blimps, climbs, emboli, fimble, gimbal, imbalm, labium, lambie, limbas, limbed, limber, limbic, limbos, limbus, milneb, mobile, nimble, nimbly, timbal, wimble.

+3 letters: albumin, alembic, ambling, amiable, amiably, baalism, balmier, balmily, beamily, beslime, besmile, bimetal, bimodal, blaming, blemish, bluming, brimful, bulimia, bulimic, bumpily, cambial, cembali, chimbly, climbed, climber, embolic, embroil, fimbles, gimbals, gumboil, imbalms, imblaze, kalimba, lambier, lambies, lambing, lambkin, limbate, limbeck, limbers, limbier, limbing, mailbag, mailbox, milnebs, minable, minilab, misbill, mixable, mixible, mobiles, nimbler, nombril, obelism, plumbic, sublime, thimble, timbale, timbals, timbral, timbrel, tumbril, upclimb, wimbled, wimbles.