limb
US: /ˈɫɪm/
UK: /lˈɪm/
UK: /lˈɪm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
limb /lim/
- danh từ
- (thiên văn học) quầng (ở quanh thiên thể)
- bờ, rìa
- (thực vật học) phiến lá; phiến cánh hoa; phiến lá đài
- danh từ
- chân, tay
- cành cây to
- núi ngang, hoành sơn
- đuồi nưa tiêm qổm cạnh của chữ thập
- the limb of the law
- người đại diện cho luật pháp (luật sư, cảnh sát, công an)
- out of a limb
- chơ vơ, chơi vơi, không bấu víu vào đâu được
- ngoại động từ
- chặt chân tay, làm cho tàn phế
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 an arm or a leg; a similar part of an animal, such as a wing: an artificial limb + For a while, she lost the use of her limbs.
2 (-limbed) (in adjectives) having the type of limbs mentioned: long-limbed + loose-limbed
3 a large branch of a tree
Idioms: out on a limb (informal) not supported by other people: Are you prepared to go out on a limb (= risk doing sth that other people are not prepared to do) and make your suspicions public? + His controversial stance has left him out on a limb.
tear / rip sb limb from limb (often humorous) to attack sb very violently
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Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
long | thin | silken | powerful | bare, naked | broken, injured | stiff
I eased my stiff limbs into the hot bath.
| weary | amputated | artificial, prosthetic | lower, upper | hind
The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.
VERB + LIMB
amputate
LIMB + NOUN
development, growth
Concise English dictionary
limbs|limbed|limbinglɪm
noun
+one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
+any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
+(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
+either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
+the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
+any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
