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# arms

«arms» in Mova's school dictionary: **The two body parts from your shoulders to your hands…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural of arm: an arm, arms); noun (arms — weapons, always plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The two body parts from your shoulders to your hands (plural of arm). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#m1)

2) The side parts of a chair or sofa (plural). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#m2)

3) Weapons: guns and other weapons (formal: «arms»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#m3)

4) In phrases: a coat of arms — a family or town's special picture or badge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and PE: stretch your arms, swing your arms when you run; an octopus has eight arms. In everyday life: hug with open arms; carry something in your arms. In history: «arms» (weapons), «coat of arms» on shields and flags. Phrases: in your arms, with open arms, arm in arm, up in arms (very angry about something), fold your arms, keep your arms inside, coat of arms.

### examples

- Stretch your arms up high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x1)
- She carried the baby in her arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x2)
- An octopus has eight arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x3)
- Fold your arms and listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x4)
- Keep your arms inside the car window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x5)
- They welcomed us with open arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x6)
- Parents were up in arms about the new car park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x7)
- Our school badge is a coat of arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x8)
- They flew into each other's arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/#x9)

### note

«Arms» meaning weapons has no singular in that sense. «Up in arms» = very angry and protesting. In maths: «5 starfish with 5 arms each = 25 arms» — arms per animal × number of animals.

### In the corpora

- [A squid has 8 arms and 2 longer tentacles, and like an octopus it has 3 hearts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/17/)
- [An octopus has eight arms with suckers all along them, and scientists call them arms, not tentacles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/7/)
- [A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/8/)
- [Sifakas are lemurs built for leaping between trees, so on the ground they bounce sideways with their arms up, like dancers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/15/)
- [Videos of tickled pet lorises raising their arms are not cute: the loris is frightened and getting ready to bite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «arms» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arms/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.