arm

  • 71ARM — adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) A loan for which the interest rate ( coupon rate) is adjusted periodically to reflect changes in a previously selected index rate. ARMs may have caps and floors that limit the annual and/or the lifetime change in… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 72arm — 01. The research [arm] of the Cancer Society has made many important discoveries in the past few decades. 02. I broke one of the [arms] of my glasses when I was playing basketball. 03. She set her tea on the [arm] of her chair. 04. Many Americans …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 73arm — See: give one s right arm, keep at a distance or keep at arm s length, shot in the arm, take up arms, twist one s arm, up in arms, with open arms, arm and a leg …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 74arm — I arm 1. arm sb., en, e, ene; brække armen; tage noget i stiv arm (klare noget med styrke og sindsro) II arm 2. arm adj., t, e (stakkels) …

    Dansk ordbog

  • 75arm — ạrm, ärmer, ärmst ; Adj; 1 mit nur wenig Besitz und Geld ≈ mittellos ↔ reich <ein Mensch, eine Familie, ein Land>: Er ist ein Kind armer Eltern 2 arm an etwas (Dat) sein von einer Sache nur sehr wenig haben oder enthalten ↔ reich an etwas… …

    Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache

  • 76arm — [OE] The two distinct senses of arm, ‘limb’ and ‘weapon’, both go back ultimately to the same source, the Indo European base *ar ‘fit, join’ (which also produced art and article). One derivative of this was Latin arma ‘weapons, tools’, which… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 77arm —   Anatomy. Lima; kālele (as of a chair);    ♦ upper part of arm, uluna, ununa.    ♦ Arm below elbow, kū aulima.    ♦ Arm in arm, kui lima, kuikui lima, kui ē ē.    ♦ To swing the arms, kāia …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 78arm — [OE] The two distinct senses of arm, ‘limb’ and ‘weapon’, both go back ultimately to the same source, the Indo European base *ar ‘fit, join’ (which also produced art and article). One derivative of this was Latin arma ‘weapons, tools’, which… …

    Word origins

  • 79arm — 1. noun /ɑːm,ɑɹm/ a) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. She stood with her right arm extended and her palm forward to indicate “Stop!” …

    Wiktionary

  • 80arm — n 1. British power, influence, coercion. A colloquial coinage on the lines of hold , grip or strong arm . ► This should give us some arm. 2. See on the arm 3. South African a measurement of dagga. Recorded as an item of Sowetan slang in the Cape… …

    Contemporary slang