limb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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:
  2. The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
    — the solar limb
  3. A branch of a tree.
  4. The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
  5. The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
  6. The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
    — The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.
  7. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  8. 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.
  9. Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
动词 v.
  1. To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). transitive
    — They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
  2. To supply with limbs. transitive
    — Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose
  3. To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs transitive
    — Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

词形变化

limbs plural limbs present,singular,third-person limbing participle,present limbed participle,past limbed past limbs plural

词汇关系

近义词
limb delimb
下位词
arm leg wing
衍生词
belimb CHILD syndrome dislimb forelimb go out on a limb hind limb interlimb intralimb life and limb limb brightening limb darkening limb from limb limb girdle syndrome limbless limbline limb-mammary syndrome limbmeal limb of the law limbward limby mooselimb out on a limb phantom limb renal dysplasia-limb defects syndrome risk life and limb risk one's life and limb Roux limb unlimb limb-brightened limb-brightening limb-darkened limb-darkening

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
词源 2
From Latin limbus (“border”).
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