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noun lɪmlɪm 1An arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing. （人、四足动物的）肢，肢体；（鸟的）翼 they got out, stretching their cramped limbs Example sentencesExamples - Once amputees worldwide began to regularly jog, run, and jump, it became apparent that the lack of shock absorption in artificial limbs was a limiting factor.
- When we have a limb amputated, our neural map of that limb gradually fades away; and if we gain a body part, our neural map expands accordingly.
- The black tux glides across his trim, elegant frame, long limbs and broad shoulders.
- To take one example, the default model for development of the limb of a bird is not the chicken's foot, but that of a duck.
- He was tall and handsome, broad of shoulder, loose of limb; an athlete of grace and style.
- How otherwise to explain the small dull ache within him always, the ache that a severed limb leaves?
- When drawing the figure I am interested in the way it moves - stretches, muscles, limbs - how do they twist, how do you make it look realistic.
- Apparently, its limbs were primarily adapted for swimming and walking along the bottom of a lake, rather than for crawling on land.
- I am in between shifts at my desk, stretching my limbs.
- Feeling the sudden warmth of the sun on her chilled limbs, Anna became aware that they had emerged into the daylight, and were now slowly ascending a steep section of the course.
- Among the coelurosaurians, the subgroup of maniraptorans evolved true broad feathers on their limbs.
- The light from the sun warmed her limbs even if the draft was breezy and cool.
- Diaphanously winged and provided with limbs far too long and interestingly jointed to be in any way aerodynamic, it would appear to be some kind of mutant grasshopper, a cicada maybe?
- Her body was being covered with leaves and her limbs and neck were hit by a sharp shovel, which was also recovered from the scene.
- The most common malformations are partial hind limbs, missing hind limbs, and missing toes.
- Correction of the upward trend early in the history can stop the advent of Diabetes, with all the visual and metabolic problems, even including amputation of limbs.
- He hit the floor with a sickening crunch, wings askew and limbs bent into impossibly painful angles.
- Walking may be more familiar and is a whole body exercise compared with cycling where the lower limbs are the primary effector muscles.
- The ability to reduce area and span during the recovery stroke is intimately associated with the design of the propulsive limbs in small animals.
- He stretched his long limbs, and pushed his white hair back behind his pointed ears.
Synonyms arm, leg wing extremity, appendage, protuberance, projection archaic member 2A large branch of a tree. （树的）大枝，主枝 the bare limbs of a high tree Example sentencesExamples - discuss what happens to tree branches as winter turns to spring, and how limbs grow out from tree branches.
- Some of the apple trees had drooping limbs; some grew straight and stiff.
- For some reason, there was a clear channel of space with no tree limbs to block the light to the side of that tombstone.
- Plopping down under the leafy limbs of the shade-producing tree, she
- They prefer the security of nearby cover that brush and low-to-the-ground tree limbs like our Norway spruce give them.
- Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
- The sounds of chain saws growled from streets as residents and workers cleared brush and tree limbs from roads and lawns Monday.
- Hot and sweaty again, we quickly strip off our shoes, socks and daypacks, leaving them by a great tree whose limbs shade the pond, and jump in.
- Many were left with undesired remnants of the storm: spoiled milk, downed tree limbs and empty gas pumps.
- Heavy snow and whipping winds can cause limbs from trees and shrubs to snap.
- All of a sudden the great sheltering limbs of the trees over Jasperwood look like ceiling beams in a quake-shaken house, ready to crash down.
- This is the truck with a giant crane arm that comes down the street and picks up the large tree limbs and other debris that people leave out on the sidewalk to be taken away by the city.
- They pay for the holiday lights that hang from downtown tree limbs.
- The road seemed a lot different on the way back, rocks he hadn't seen before made him stumble over and over, tree limbs scratched at his forehead and arms.
- I looked up and saw one of the small squirrels running down the length of a limb with a twig of leaves in his mouth.
- Fluid images of tree limbs sweeping across the other set of frames recall exhilarating strokes of sumi ink painting.
- Tonight, however, Brach built a large shelter out of tree limbs and mosses - setting the fire several feet away.
- Of course, larger cleanup tasks should be left to bigger stationary units that can safely handle both larger limbs and leaves.
- When they reappeared, they were in the moonlit shadow of a tall, aged tree whose limbs were full and bright in the moonlight.
- They use a variety of foraging styles; most commonly they glean food from foliage while they climb about on tree limbs.
- 2.1 A branch of a cross.
（树的）大枝，主枝 - 2.2 Each half of an archery bow.
弓把的上部（或下部） Example sentencesExamples - Using too few strands can over-stress the bow limbs and possibly break them.
- Slip the loop of the bowstring over the nock and down the limb of the bow and tie the free end of the string to the other nock using a timber hitch, bowline or similar non-stressing knot.
3A projecting landform such as a spur of a mountain range, or each of two or more such projections as in a forked peninsula or archipelago. 突出的地貌（如山鼻子）；叉形半岛两个叉枝之一（或群岛的多个叉枝之一） Example sentencesExamples - The eastern limb of the Klip River emanates from the park and flows southward, into other areas of Soweto, until it reaches the Vaal River further in the South.
- A quarter of a mile further on, at the eastern limb of the bay, the path descended steeply, zig-zagging across the cliff face to a stretch of beach to the east of Holland Point.
- 3.1 A projecting section of a building.
（建筑物的）突出部分
PhrasesLife and all bodily faculties. 生命及全部身体机能 a burglar risking life and limb to scramble into an open third-floor window Example sentencesExamples - Despite flood warnings, the annual River Wharfe swim in Otley went ahead, where six swimmers left the warmth of their hearths to risk life and limb in the swollen river.
- I am going to risk life and limb here, but I believe I am justified in saying that there are novels which women will enjoy more than men, and vice versa.
- It is a frightening thought that but for the willingness of these members to risk life and limb to help others and the efforts of fundraisers, many people would not be here today to thank them.
- They often work long hours under trying conditions, risking life and limb, and in the process they make positive contributions to society.
- When ripe, the fruit turns a bright reddish orange and attracts pecking birds and children who risk life and limb to get at the juiciest looking cashew fruit.
- The concerned local man took a number of photographs of the workers as they risked life and limb on the roof of the building, which is due to open on January 29.
- Passengers tempted by the sight of the sometimes near-empty buses risk their life and limb while making a mad rush to board them.
- But this is heroism of a peculiarly modern kind, not the ability to risk life and limb to achieve a particular result but the quiet acceptance of suffering.
- But their traditional routes are often bisected by roads - forcing the creatures to risk life and limb as they follow their instinct.
- He had risked life and limb for his country and fellow soldiers, given his all and came home safe and sound - one of the lucky ones, one of the boys.
Aberdeen is rather out on a limb 阿伯丁市僻处一隅，地位孤立。 Example sentencesExamples - But he wasn't going out on a limb, way out on a limb, you know, without any reason.
- It left little time for anything else, rather out on a limb you might say.
- Yet Eriska is so isolated, so thoroughly out on a limb, that getting there still feels like a journey to the edge of time and place.
- So I feel rather out on a limb because I know that I have to help myself through this.
Synonyms isolated, stranded, segregated, set apart, separate, marooned, cut off 2In or into a position where one is not joined or supported by anyone else. 独立从事 I wouldn't go out on a limb like this if I didn't have the data to justify it Example sentencesExamples - But if a manager ever decides to go out on a limb in pursuit of an unsecured position, then you probably won't hear about it until something goes wrong.
- But it's so lame it's funny, and the music is pretty cool, I will go out on a limb here and say this is a good power pop song.
- And he has a gentleman who is willing to go out on a limb for him.
- I'll go out on a limb and guess there was nearly no such coverage in the US press, despite ample reason for self-criticism on our part.
- As the movie came to an end, I was wondering if Payne was going to go out on a limb here and leave his central character in a worse position than at the start of the movie.
- In this instance, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that while Meryl makes some good points, she is grasping at straws.
- I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think the perpetrators were embittered citizens or teenage vandals.
- And while my dreams are never easy to analyze, I'm going to go out on a limb here and analyze what that dog represented.
- We've all been tempted to push the envelope, go out on a limb, do something maybe not quite right just to put ourselves over the top.
- I like hearing the candidates from both parties go out on a limb and proclaim their support for America, apple pie and motherhood.
Synonyms in a precarious position, in a weak position, in a risky situation, vulnerable
tear someone limb from limb Violently dismember someone. 残暴地肢解（某人） Example sentencesExamples - I imagine they're tearing him limb from limb just about now.
- We are going to march and you men I expect to tear them limb from limb.
- You know I'll tear him limb from limb if he did anything to hurt you.
- The betrayed son ran toward the red-stained patriarch, arms outstretched, meaning to tear him limb from limb.
- I think what he is implying is that he has a fearsome reputation and will tear you limb from limb, should the moment arise.
- The US sent troops to occupy Haiti in 1915 after a mob dragged President Guillaume Sam from his palace and tore him limb from limb.
- They intensify their grip on me, willing me every which way, tearing me limb from limb, like a rag doll in the empty sea of space.
- I narrow my eyes in such a way that even if I'm not imagining tearing them limb from limb, if you caught my gaze at that moment you would at least think that's what I was imagining.
- Maybe it'll give you a chance to calm down before you tear George limb from limb.
- She wanted to look away, fear that he would tear her limb from limb.
Derivativesadjective in combination long-limbed
adjective ˈlɪmləsˈlɪmləs War has many horrors: widows and orphans created, toddlers rendered limbless, death, destruction and massive waste. Example sentencesExamples - Scattered around the airstrip are some of Afghanistan's 10 million landmines, which every day leave innocent civilians limbless.
- The images of suffering and mutilation, of limbless children and deformed young women, have been in the media for years, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
- At first sight, the concept of ‘handedness’ is inapplicable to completely limbless animals, and thus it is difficult to imagine a right-handed snake.
OriginOld English lim (also in the sense 'organ or part of the body'), of Germanic origin. There was no ‘b’ in limb until the 16th century: the earlier form was lim. Old English thuma similarly became thumb in the 13th century. Words such as Old English comb and dumb that had always ended in -b may have influenced the new spelling. The limb in out on a limb is the branch of a tree, a sense of the same word. The image conjured up is of someone clinging precariously to the end of a projecting branch, with nothing or no one to assist them in their difficult situation.
Rhymesbedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, grim, Grimm, gym, him, hymn, Jim, Kim, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim noun lɪmlɪm 1Astronomy
The edge of the disc of a celestial object, especially the sun or moon. 〔天文〕（日月等天体的）边缘 the eastern limb of the moon Example sentencesExamples - It occurs when the limb of the Moon just touches the apparent edge of the Sun in the sky, but does not overlap it.
- Second, it predicted that light from a distant star passing near to the limb of sun would be bent by a small but measurable angle.
- One was just on the limb of the planet and one was far off but the other two were nowhere in sight.
- This image obtained by the Clementine satellite in 1994 shows the solar corona shining above the limb of the Moon.
- The event is a moderate partial eclipse with the Moon's northern limb dipping 15 arc-minutes into Earth's umbral shadow.
2Botany
The blade or broad part of a leaf or petal. 〔植〕冠檐，萼檐 Example sentencesExamples - As plants reached flowering maturity, the gender was noted and flower measurements were taken on petal limb, petal claw and calyx diameter.
- 2.1 The spreading upper part of a tube-shaped flower.
（管状花的）瓣片
3The graduated arc of a quadrant or other scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. （四分仪等科学仪器上测量角度的）分度弧
OriginLate Middle English: from French limbe or Latin limbus 'hem, border'. nounlimlɪm 1An arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing. （人、四足动物的）肢，肢体；（鸟的）翼 Example sentencesExamples - He was tall and handsome, broad of shoulder, loose of limb; an athlete of grace and style.
- Feeling the sudden warmth of the sun on her chilled limbs, Anna became aware that they had emerged into the daylight, and were now slowly ascending a steep section of the course.
- He stretched his long limbs, and pushed his white hair back behind his pointed ears.
- When we have a limb amputated, our neural map of that limb gradually fades away; and if we gain a body part, our neural map expands accordingly.
- Diaphanously winged and provided with limbs far too long and interestingly jointed to be in any way aerodynamic, it would appear to be some kind of mutant grasshopper, a cicada maybe?
- Correction of the upward trend early in the history can stop the advent of Diabetes, with all the visual and metabolic problems, even including amputation of limbs.
- The ability to reduce area and span during the recovery stroke is intimately associated with the design of the propulsive limbs in small animals.
- The light from the sun warmed her limbs even if the draft was breezy and cool.
- When drawing the figure I am interested in the way it moves - stretches, muscles, limbs - how do they twist, how do you make it look realistic.
- He hit the floor with a sickening crunch, wings askew and limbs bent into impossibly painful angles.
- Apparently, its limbs were primarily adapted for swimming and walking along the bottom of a lake, rather than for crawling on land.
- Among the coelurosaurians, the subgroup of maniraptorans evolved true broad feathers on their limbs.
- I am in between shifts at my desk, stretching my limbs.
- The black tux glides across his trim, elegant frame, long limbs and broad shoulders.
- To take one example, the default model for development of the limb of a bird is not the chicken's foot, but that of a duck.
- Walking may be more familiar and is a whole body exercise compared with cycling where the lower limbs are the primary effector muscles.
- Once amputees worldwide began to regularly jog, run, and jump, it became apparent that the lack of shock absorption in artificial limbs was a limiting factor.
- Her body was being covered with leaves and her limbs and neck were hit by a sharp shovel, which was also recovered from the scene.
- How otherwise to explain the small dull ache within him always, the ache that a severed limb leaves?
- The most common malformations are partial hind limbs, missing hind limbs, and missing toes.
- 1.1 A large branch of a tree.
（树的）大枝，主枝 Example sentencesExamples - Of course, larger cleanup tasks should be left to bigger stationary units that can safely handle both larger limbs and leaves.
- For some reason, there was a clear channel of space with no tree limbs to block the light to the side of that tombstone.
- Some of the apple trees had drooping limbs; some grew straight and stiff.
- The road seemed a lot different on the way back, rocks he hadn't seen before made him stumble over and over, tree limbs scratched at his forehead and arms.
- Fluid images of tree limbs sweeping across the other set of frames recall exhilarating strokes of sumi ink painting.
- All of a sudden the great sheltering limbs of the trees over Jasperwood look like ceiling beams in a quake-shaken house, ready to crash down.
- This is the truck with a giant crane arm that comes down the street and picks up the large tree limbs and other debris that people leave out on the sidewalk to be taken away by the city.
- Plopping down under the leafy limbs of the shade-producing tree, she
- When they reappeared, they were in the moonlit shadow of a tall, aged tree whose limbs were full and bright in the moonlight.
- Hot and sweaty again, we quickly strip off our shoes, socks and daypacks, leaving them by a great tree whose limbs shade the pond, and jump in.
- They pay for the holiday lights that hang from downtown tree limbs.
- They use a variety of foraging styles; most commonly they glean food from foliage while they climb about on tree limbs.
- discuss what happens to tree branches as winter turns to spring, and how limbs grow out from tree branches.
- Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
- I looked up and saw one of the small squirrels running down the length of a limb with a twig of leaves in his mouth.
- The sounds of chain saws growled from streets as residents and workers cleared brush and tree limbs from roads and lawns Monday.
- Heavy snow and whipping winds can cause limbs from trees and shrubs to snap.
- They prefer the security of nearby cover that brush and low-to-the-ground tree limbs like our Norway spruce give them.
- Many were left with undesired remnants of the storm: spoiled milk, downed tree limbs and empty gas pumps.
- Tonight, however, Brach built a large shelter out of tree limbs and mosses - setting the fire several feet away.
- 1.2 A projecting landform such as a spur of a mountain range, or each of two or more such projections as in a forked peninsula or archipelago.
突出的地貌（如山鼻子）；叉形半岛两个叉枝之一（或群岛的多个叉枝之一） Example sentencesExamples - A quarter of a mile further on, at the eastern limb of the bay, the path descended steeply, zig-zagging across the cliff face to a stretch of beach to the east of Holland Point.
- The eastern limb of the Klip River emanates from the park and flows southward, into other areas of Soweto, until it reaches the Vaal River further in the South.
- 1.3 A projecting section of a building.
（建筑物的）突出部分 - 1.4 A branch of a cross.
（树的）大枝，主枝 - 1.5 Each half of an archery bow.
弓把的上部（或下部） Example sentencesExamples - Slip the loop of the bowstring over the nock and down the limb of the bow and tie the free end of the string to the other nock using a timber hitch, bowline or similar non-stressing knot.
- Using too few strands can over-stress the bow limbs and possibly break them.
PhrasesLife and all bodily faculties. 生命及全部身体机能 a reckless disregard for life and limb 毫不顾及他人的生死安危。 Example sentencesExamples - The concerned local man took a number of photographs of the workers as they risked life and limb on the roof of the building, which is due to open on January 29.
- I am going to risk life and limb here, but I believe I am justified in saying that there are novels which women will enjoy more than men, and vice versa.
- They often work long hours under trying conditions, risking life and limb, and in the process they make positive contributions to society.
- He had risked life and limb for his country and fellow soldiers, given his all and came home safe and sound - one of the lucky ones, one of the boys.
- Despite flood warnings, the annual River Wharfe swim in Otley went ahead, where six swimmers left the warmth of their hearths to risk life and limb in the swollen river.
- It is a frightening thought that but for the willingness of these members to risk life and limb to help others and the efforts of fundraisers, many people would not be here today to thank them.
- When ripe, the fruit turns a bright reddish orange and attracts pecking birds and children who risk life and limb to get at the juiciest looking cashew fruit.
- Passengers tempted by the sight of the sometimes near-empty buses risk their life and limb while making a mad rush to board them.
- But this is heroism of a peculiarly modern kind, not the ability to risk life and limb to achieve a particular result but the quiet acceptance of suffering.
- But their traditional routes are often bisected by roads - forcing the creatures to risk life and limb as they follow their instinct.
In or into a dangerous or uncompromising position, where one is not joined or supported by anyone else; vulnerable. 独立从事 she's prepared to go out on a limb and do something different Example sentencesExamples - I like hearing the candidates from both parties go out on a limb and proclaim their support for America, apple pie and motherhood.
- In this instance, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that while Meryl makes some good points, she is grasping at straws.
- We've all been tempted to push the envelope, go out on a limb, do something maybe not quite right just to put ourselves over the top.
- I'll go out on a limb and guess there was nearly no such coverage in the US press, despite ample reason for self-criticism on our part.
- But if a manager ever decides to go out on a limb in pursuit of an unsecured position, then you probably won't hear about it until something goes wrong.
- I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think the perpetrators were embittered citizens or teenage vandals.
- As the movie came to an end, I was wondering if Payne was going to go out on a limb here and leave his central character in a worse position than at the start of the movie.
- And he has a gentleman who is willing to go out on a limb for him.
- And while my dreams are never easy to analyze, I'm going to go out on a limb here and analyze what that dog represented.
- But it's so lame it's funny, and the music is pretty cool, I will go out on a limb here and say this is a good power pop song.
Synonyms in a precarious position, in a weak position, in a risky situation, vulnerable
tear someone limb from limb Violently dismember someone. 残暴地肢解（某人） Example sentencesExamples - I narrow my eyes in such a way that even if I'm not imagining tearing them limb from limb, if you caught my gaze at that moment you would at least think that's what I was imagining.
- The betrayed son ran toward the red-stained patriarch, arms outstretched, meaning to tear him limb from limb.
- I imagine they're tearing him limb from limb just about now.
- You know I'll tear him limb from limb if he did anything to hurt you.
- They intensify their grip on me, willing me every which way, tearing me limb from limb, like a rag doll in the empty sea of space.
- The US sent troops to occupy Haiti in 1915 after a mob dragged President Guillaume Sam from his palace and tore him limb from limb.
- I think what he is implying is that he has a fearsome reputation and will tear you limb from limb, should the moment arise.
- She wanted to look away, fear that he would tear her limb from limb.
- Maybe it'll give you a chance to calm down before you tear George limb from limb.
- We are going to march and you men I expect to tear them limb from limb.
OriginOld English lim (also in the sense ‘organ or part of the body’), of Germanic origin. nounlimlɪm 1Astronomy
The edge of the disk of a celestial object, especially the sun or moon. 〔天文〕（日月等天体的）边缘 the eastern limb of the moon Example sentencesExamples - Second, it predicted that light from a distant star passing near to the limb of sun would be bent by a small but measurable angle.
- It occurs when the limb of the Moon just touches the apparent edge of the Sun in the sky, but does not overlap it.
- This image obtained by the Clementine satellite in 1994 shows the solar corona shining above the limb of the Moon.
- One was just on the limb of the planet and one was far off but the other two were nowhere in sight.
- The event is a moderate partial eclipse with the Moon's northern limb dipping 15 arc-minutes into Earth's umbral shadow.
2Botany
The blade or broad part of a leaf or petal. 〔植〕冠檐，萼檐 Example sentencesExamples - As plants reached flowering maturity, the gender was noted and flower measurements were taken on petal limb, petal claw and calyx diameter.
- 2.1 The spreading upper part of a tube-shaped flower.
（管状花的）瓣片
3The graduated arc of a quadrant or other scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. （四分仪等科学仪器上测量角度的）分度弧
OriginLate Middle English: from French limbe or Latin limbus ‘hem, border’. |