Dictionary Entry
shoulder
shoulder is a 8-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
- 2noun
The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
- 3noun
Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
- 4noun
That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
- 5noun
The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
- 6noun
The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
- 7noun
An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
- 8transitive verb
To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
- 9transitive verb
To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
- 10noun
a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
"the car pulled off onto the shoulder"
Synonyms
- 11noun
the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
"an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform"
- 12noun
the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- 13noun
a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
- 14noun
a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- 15verb
push with the shoulders
"He shouldered his way into the crowd"
- 16verb
carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
"shoulder the burden"
- 17verb
lift onto one's shoulders
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