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LIMB

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Traducere în limba română

limb I. substantiv

1. membru, mădular (al corpului);

the lower limbs membrele inferioare;

(glumeţ, despre un avocat, un poliţist) the limb of the law păzitorul legii / ordinii.

2. cracă, ramură (groasă), creangă.

3. (fig.) membru; părtaş.

4. parte (a unui argument).

5. (fam.) soi rău, diavol, copil neascultător;

limb of the devil drac împieliţat.

6. (astron.) limb, bord (al unui astru).

7. (tehn.) limb piesă; flanc; detaliu.

8. (tehn.) braţ; arc; membru.

9. (geol.) aripă (a unei falii); cot (al unui clin).

limb II. verb tranzitiv

1. a dezmembra (un corp);

(fam.) I'll limb him îl tai bucăţele.

2. a tăia (crăcile unui arbore).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Here, Jacques, thou limb of the devil, bring a bottrine of the oldest vernage, and see that you do not shake it.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This allele, which encodes nipped-B-like protein, plays a role in the mediation of both limb development and cartilage formation.

(NIPBL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both cartilage development and limb formation and may play a role in chromatin structure.

(Nipped-B-Like Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Oh, my eyes and limbs, what do you want?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I suppose I have all my limbs and all my features like any other man?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It is not to be conceived that a man of three or four-and-twenty should not have liberty of mind or limb to that amount.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Louisa's limbs had escaped.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He had not been there long before he began to feel so tired that his limbs seemed hardly able to support him, and he could not stand upright any longer; so again he lay down and fell fast asleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I was trying to turn myself a few minutes since, and find I cannot move a limb.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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