noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hind legs/feet/quarters/limbs
risk life and limb (= risk your life and health )
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Why risk life and limb jumping out of a plane just to raise money for charity?
your lower limbs (= your legs )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
artificial
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After the war he founded the Disabled Society, lobbying the government to improve the quality of artificial limbs .
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Some came on canes and artificial limbs .
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What has it been like climbing with artificial limbs ?
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In much the same way computer simulation has been used in bioengineering in the design of prosthesis such as artificial limbs or hips.
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He explains how new technology can make some products, like artificial limbs , lighter.
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The main problem in Chechnya today is how to find artificial limbs for amputees.
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The only hospital unit that can fit artificial limbs is in Vladikavkaz, in northern Ossetia.
broken
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There would be a broken tree limb , she could sit quietly, think of other things.
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When the prefect learned tbat Hadrian had been baptized, he had him broken limb from limb.
long
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She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp.
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Amy Van Dyken, 23, all giddy laughter and long limbs .
low
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Awards made during and after World War Two have the year of the award engraved on the reverse lower limb .
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The lower limbs are very high, allowing in morning sun and filtered or dappled light during the rest of the day.
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Symmetrical wasting and weakness was present in the upper and lower limbs and all tendon reflexes were absent.
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Jeanie the Half Woman, born without lower limbs , walks on her hands, cooks and even raised a family.
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Immobile, her lower limbs yet had the ripple of fined-down muscle about them, the promise of animal movement.
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She moaned and her body stretched, her lower limbs pressing tight against him, his thigh filling her inner thighs.
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Anyway, there's considerable loss of blood, massive lower limb and pelvic damage and some chest injuries.
torn
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Then it is torn limb from limb up in the tree.
■ NOUN
bone
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Fig. 3.9 Proportions of proximal against distal ends of limb bones .
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The other rib and limb bones eventually hardened from their vestigial origins in the cartilage of fishes.
bud
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For example, in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops but the apical ridge dies thus stopping limb development.
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Cells in the limb bud must record whether they are forelimb or hindlimb cells and so alter their programme.
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We tested this by grafting the tip of a limb bud to the flank of the embryo.
tree
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There would be a broken tree limb , she could sit quietly, think of other things.
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I loved the tree limbs fallen across the road.
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It also had a mobile shoulder joint that would allow it to hang from tree limbs .
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The tree limbs were covered with leaves and the green grass cushioned the sapphire blue of the sky.
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Waves up to 30 feet tore away the beachfront of the Huatulco Sheraton and other bays, leaving tree limbs scattered everywhere.
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In addition, tree limbs blowing constantly against the house can tear roof edges, damage siding and create a leak.
■ VERB
break
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If a camel slid and fell, it could easily break pelvis or limb and that would be the end of it.
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When the prefect learned that Hadrian had been baptized, he had him broken limb from limb.
lose
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I don't think anything is worth the risk of losing your life or losing a limb .
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They cite numbers and percentages of casualties, they give names of comrades who lost eyesight and limbs .
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It was easy to manage, but it felt like I'd lost a limb !
move
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Fig.15 During an Alexander Lesson, you may be asked to lie on a table while the teacher moves your limbs .
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But at least Baby Wiggles and Giggles has moving limbs and pretty blue eyes.
risk
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Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
stretch
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Even twenty yards back they could not stand up, but they could crouch and stretch each limb in turn.
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They build up physical strength, stretching their limbs and testing their agility.
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Or stretch her limbs and laugh at the careworn ways of her elders?
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She moaned and her body stretched , her lower limbs pressing tight against him, his thigh filling her inner thighs.
tear
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I thought he was going to tear me limb from limb.
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They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
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Had she known, she'd have torn him limb from limb, bitten his sun-browned flesh till the blood flowed.
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Like the very first poet, Orpheus, torn limb from limb...
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
life and limb
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The array of rules and regulations dealing with transport and behaviour on the highway are concerned with protecting life and limb.
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The Malvern Hills Classic meeting ... now in its fourth year ... isn't all about risking life and limb though.
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This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot.
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Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
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We're talking serious grievous bodily here, maybe loss of life and limb.
tear sb limb from limb
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Garcia's opponents are angry enough to tear him limb from limb.
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Had she known, she'd have torn him limb from limb, bitten his sun-browned flesh till the blood flowed.
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I thought he was going to tear me limb from limb.
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They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hundreds of children have lost limbs after stepping on mines.
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The calf stood up slowly, with trembling limbs and took its first, uncertain steps.
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When babies are born they have very little control over their limbs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyway, there's considerable loss of blood, massive lower limb and pelvic damage and some chest injuries.
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Even Jack felt a curious stiffening of the limbs.
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Here again, the descending limb of the loop of Henle in freely permeable to water but not to solute.
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My limbs fail, my mouth is parched, my hair is standing on end.
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Strength of limb , willingness of spirit-that would be sufficient.
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Their limbs moved in naked smoothness, shifting against each other, intertwining.