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Willing to pay an arm and a leg for those World Series tickets? Then you're willing to give up two of your limbs for the season's biggest baseball games.

Arms, legs, wings, flippers — these are all examples of limbs. But we shouldn't leave out the trees. They've got plenty of large branches or limbs as well. In fact, when you expose yourself to potentially negative consequences in order to help someone else, it's called "going out on a limb" — like crawling out on a big tree branch. Not a flipper.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: limb

1	n	one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
2	n	(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: limb

1

n one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

Types:: show 19 types...; hide 19 types...; hind limb, hindlimb
a posterior appendage such as a leg or the homologous structure in other animals; forelimb
the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing); flipper
the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming; leg
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle; crus
the leg from the knee to foot; leg
a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion; thigh
the part of the leg between the hip and the knee; arm
a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb; cubitus
the arm from the elbow to the fingertips; forearm
the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist; prehensor
the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths; animal leg
the leg of an animal; hind leg
the back limb of a quadruped; foreleg
the forelimb of a quadruped; peg, pin, stick
informal terms for the leg; bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara
a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee); shank's mare, shank's pony, shanks' mare, shanks' pony
you own legs; spindlelegs, spindleshanks
long thin legs; lap
the upper side of the thighs of a seated person

Type of:: appendage, extremity, member
an external body part that projects from the body

n any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

Synonyms:: arm, branch

Type of:: projection
any structure that branches out from a central support

n any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

Synonyms:: tree branch

Types:: stick
a small thin branch of a tree; bough
any of the larger branches of a tree

Type of:: branch
a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

n either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

“the upper limb of the bow”

Type of:: part, portion
something less than the whole of a human artifact

2

n (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

Type of:: border, edge
the boundary of a surface

n the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

“the limb of the sextant”

Type of:: arc
a continuous portion of a circle