limb
limb is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
- noun. An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
- noun. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- noun. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- transitive verb. To supply with limbs.
- transitive verb. To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
- noun. A border or edge, in certain special uses.
- noun. The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
- noun. The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
- noun. The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
- noun. any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
"the arm of the record player"
"an arm of the sea"
- noun. the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
"the limb of the sextant"
- noun. either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
"the upper limb of the bow"
- noun. one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
- noun. (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- noun. any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
Synonyms
Common word forms
limbs, limbal, limbed, limber, limbing, limbous, limbless
Words from these letters
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