SHOULDER
\ʃˈə͡ʊldə], \ʃˈəʊldə], \ʃ_ˈəʊ_l_d_ə]\
Definitions of SHOULDER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
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the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
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push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd"
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carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"
By Princeton University
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a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
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edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
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the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
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push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd"
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carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side.
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The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
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Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
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That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
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The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
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The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
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An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
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To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
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To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
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The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; - often used in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side.
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The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
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Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
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That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
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The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
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The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
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An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
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To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
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To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
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The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; - often used in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
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The projecting part of the human body between the neck and the place where the arm joins the trunk; in animals, the fore quarter; that which resembles a shoulder; a prominence.
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To take upon the shoulder; assume the responsibility of; as, to shoulder a burden; to push with, or as with, the shoulders; as, to shoulder one's way.
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To push or make one's way by using the shoulders.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The joint which connects the human arm or the foreleg of a quadruped with the body: the flesh and muscles about the shoulder: the upper joint of the foreleg of an animal cut for market: a prominence: (fig.) that which sustains.
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To push with the shoulder or violently: to take upon the shoulder.
By Daniel Lyons
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Joint connecting the arm or fore-leg with the body.
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To push with the shoulder; take upon the shoulder.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To push with or as with the shoulder.
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The joint connecting the arm or fore limb with the body.
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An enlargement or projection.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The prominence of the articulation of the cephalic limb with the trunk, constituted chiefly by the clavicle, the scapula, and the head of the humerus; also any similar prominence. [Ang-Sax.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo Saxon] The joint by which the arm of a human being, or the fore leg of a quadruped, is connected with the body;—the flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder-joint; the upper part of the back;—that which supports or sustains; support;—that which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projecting appendage from the body of a thing;-the fore leg of an animal dressed for market.