elbow
/ˈɛlbəʊ
/- It is now possible to replace almost all the joints of the body, including hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, ankles, and fingers.
- Valgus stress is applied to the elbow with maximal forearm pronation.
- This presents with a maculopapular rash and arthralgia, typically affecting the wrist, knees, elbows, and ankles.
Synonyms
- Critical zones on a gown are the cuff to the elbow, sleeve seams, and the front of the gown.
- For extra attention, select a cardigan with small pockets or leather patches on the elbows.
- The dress puffed out below the waist, and had puffy sleeves, until the elbow, where they became skin-tight.
- Use ridged flex aluminum or ridged four-inch elbows and straight vent pipe to vent your dryer.
- Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom.
- On each occasion a kink, jerk or quirk was evident in his action that seemed to come from the straightening of a bent elbow.
Synonyms
- But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road.
- The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up.
- Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing.
Synonyms
- She took the bowl of chips and elbowed past us to the parlor.
- Ian elbowed past him silently and went upstairs.
- Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed.
- The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant.
- The classics have gradually been elbowed aside in favour of more unusual music: Villa Lobos last spring, for example, and an all - American programme just before it.
- The current chairman, a businessman and former police commissioner, is said to have been elbowed aside by Reilly.
Phrases
at one's elbow
elbow-to-elbow
give someone the elbow
up to one's elbows in
Origin
Old English elboga, elnboga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch elleboog and German Ellenbogen (see also ell1, bow1).
bow from Old English:
The bow of a ship has nothing to do with a person bowing in respect or a support bowing under pressure. The nautical bow (early 17th century) is in fact related to bough (Old English), the limb of a tree. Its immediate source, in the later Middle Ages, was German or Dutch. The phrase a shot across the bows, ‘a warning statement or gesture’, has its origins in the world of naval warfare, where it is one which is not intended to hit, but to make ships stop or alter their course. See also buxom. The archer's bow and the act of bending, both Old English, are related and come from Germanic roots. The archer's bow got its name from the shape, which also appears in Old English rainbow and elbow (Old English). The first part of the latter gives us the old measurement the ell, a variable measure, originally the distance from elbow to fingertip, which comes from the Indo-European root that also gives us ulna (mid 16th century) for the bone that runs from elbow to wrist.