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# wrist

«wrist» in Mova's school dictionary: **the joint between your hand and your arm** — 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 (a wrist, wrists)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your wrist is the joint between your hand and your arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#m1)

2) A wrist is also the part of a sleeve that covers this joint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the wrist is a joint made of many small bones that lets the hand bend and turn; you can feel your pulse on the inside of your wrist. In safety and sport, wrist guards protect wrists when skating, and a sprained or broken wrist often happens when you fall onto your hands. Phrases: twist your wrist, sprain your wrist, wrist watch, a slap on the wrist (a small punishment).

### examples

- I wear my watch on my left wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x1)
- She fell and sprained her wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x2)
- You can feel your pulse on your wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x3)
- Wear wrist guards when you roller skate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x4)
- He has a bracelet around his wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x5)
- Bend and stretch your wrists before typing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x6)
- His pet hawk had left his wrist and flown away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrist/#x7)

### note

The w is silent: say "rist". Wrist is the joint between hand and arm; ankle is the joint between foot and leg. "A slap on the wrist" means a very mild punishment, not a real slap.

### In the corpora

- [Spiders make silk in glands in the abdomen and pull it out through spinnerets at the back end, not from wrists or legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/4/)
- [Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/14/)
- [Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a wrist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/21/)
- [A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/5/)
- [Wrist injuries are among the most common injuries in skating and skateboarding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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