English Dictionary

limb

IPA（発音記号）

/lɪm/

名詞

略語 別表記

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing). / A branch of a tree. / (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

日本語の意味

人間や動物の主要な付属肢（腕、脚、翼などの移動に用いられる部分） / 木の枝 / (アーチェリー) 弓の、持ち手から先端までの部分

After the accident, she worried that the pain in her limb might become permanent.

その事故の後、彼女は手足の痛みが永続するのではないかと心配した。

意味（1）

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:

意味（2）

A branch of a tree.

意味（3）

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

意味（4）

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

意味（5）

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

意味（6）

(botany) The part of a corolla beyond the throat.

The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.

意味（7）

(astronomy) The edge of a star or planet.

At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.

意味（8）

Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).

limbs （ plural ）