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armnoun1 a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowdersoldiers grabbing their arms and helmets and heading into battle firearm, gun, heat(slang), piece, small arm derringer, forty-five(or .45), gat(slang), handgun, pistol, revolver, rod(slang), roscoe(slang), sidearm, six-gun, six-shooter, zip gunself-loader, semiautomaticblunderbuss, breechloader, culverin, fieldpiece, firelock, flintlock, harquebus(or arquebus), matchlock, musket, rifle, shotgun, smoothbore, twenty-two(or .22)AK-47, assault rifle, assault weapon, automatic, carbine, machine gun, machine pistol, repeater, submachine gun, tommy gunspeargun armnoun2a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organizationa company that needs to beef up its marketing arm if it wants to compete in today's business world a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shorelinethis arm of the Atlantic is surprisingly peaceful, as the stronger ocean currents do not reach this far bay, bight, cove, creek(chiefly British), embayment, estuary, firth, fjord(also fiord), gulf, inlet, loch(Scottish) harbor, port, road(s), roadsteadnarrow, sound, straitbayoubackwater, slough(also slew or slue) an area of land that juts out into a body of waterMaine has so many long, narrow arms that jut out into the ocean that early coastal settlers found it much easier to travel by sea the right or means to command or control othersfew criminals manage to permanently escape the long arm of the law authority, clutch, command, control, death grip, dominion, grip, hold, mastery, power, reign, rein(s), sway clout, influence, leverage, pull, voice, weightjurisdictiondirection, managementdominance, imperium, predominance, sovereignty(also sovranty), supremacyprerogative, privilege, righteminence, importance, moment impotence, impotency, powerlessness helplessness, weakness before the 12th century |