Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The joint between the human hand and forearm.
- noun A similar joint in other vertebrates.
- noun The part of a sleeve or glove that encircles the wrist.
- transitive verb To shoot (a puck) by making a wrist shot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of the fore limb or arm which comes between the forearm and the hand, and by which the latter is joined or jointed to the former; the wrist-joint; technically, the carpus, or the carpal articulation.
- noun The ankle or the instep.
- noun In machinery, a stud or pin projecting from the side of a crank, wheel, or other moving part, and forming a means of attachment to a connecting-rod leading to some other part of the mechanism. Also called
wrist-pin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See
Carpus . - noun (Mach.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called
wrist pin . - noun the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle.
- noun (Med.) A series of quickly alternating movements of flexion and extension of the wrist, produced in some cases of nervous disease by suddenly bending the hand back upon the forearm.
- noun (Med.) paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand, affecting the hand so that when an attempt is made to hold it out in line with the forearm with the palm down, the hand drops. It is chiefly due to plumbism. Called also
hand drop . - noun (Steam Engine) a swinging plate bearing two or more wrists, for operating the valves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The complex
joint betweenforearm bones , carpus, andmetacarpals where thehand is attached to thearm ; thecarpus in narrow sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And I played volleyball for so many hours that my wrist is all bruised greenish blue now, four days later.
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Maybe an elastic around your wrist is a good solution for you.
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So even this very mild slap on the wrist is a little unjust.
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The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the
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Though the time off was frustrating, Sheldon says his wrist is as strong as it was before the operations.
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On her wrist is a metal crescent with this inscription:
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The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the 'carpus' -- two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, which are tolerably equal in size.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The skeleton of the hand exhibits, in the region which we term the wrist, and which is technically called the 'carpus' -- two rows of closely fitted polygonal bones, four in each row, which are tolerably equal in size.
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My wrist is pretty well all right again, but Im still wearing a strap.
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