Definition of 'arm'

Re: Definition of 'arm'


No. Maybe.

"I put my arm into the shirt sleeve." I cant very well put my arm into a sleeve without first putting my hand in

Surely you meant Do our arms include our hands?

1. each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand. (in technical use) each of these upper limbs from the shoulder to the elbow.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

Obviously, if you lose your arm in a horrible accident, you lose your hand as well.

Thanks, Contrex, for pointing out my careless mistake. It looks like my memory is also no good. I'm thinking of taking something for my memory.

Sorry to ask you again the same issue. If you refer to AmE dictionaries, the arm does not include the hand, so I was told.

I don't whether some American native speaker can confirm this.

I'm born and bred in the States and I assume that most arms have hands attached.

The English idiom "to hold someone at arms length" assumes a hand to do the holding.

You might as well as if the head includes the nose

Re: Definition of 'arm'


It depends on the context, as you have seen from these replies.

Thanks, friends, for your replies.