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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flick of the wrist
▪ With a flick of the wrist, Frye sent the ball into the opposite court.
slit your wrists (=try to kill yourself by cutting your wrists)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broken
▪ Several stitches at the edge of her eye, and a broken wrist.
▪ He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital.
▪ The broken wrist happened in the warm up before the Sheff Utd game.
▪ The university's list of injuries also includes a suspected broken wrist.
left
▪ Left forearm rotation should not be confused with left wrist rotation, as to many amateurs think.
▪ Plummer, who had appeared in 133 straight regular-season games, broke his left wrist in the first exhibition game last month.
▪ With that dulled little blade in his right hand, he began drawing it slowly across the inside of his left wrist.
▪ In fact, Alou was scratched because he jammed his left wrist the night before trying to catch a home-run ball.
▪ She rushed into the kitchen, gripping her left wrist with her right hand.
▪ He got plenty of help from Hill, who missed 61 games because of a horrible-looking fracture to his left wrist.
▪ His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.
▪ Her primary problem at the moment is tendinitis in her left wrist.
right
▪ He wondered, too, whether the man would be willing to unlock the handcuff that chafed away at his right wrist.
▪ Ratliff has been on the injured list since Feb. 13 with a fractured right wrist.
▪ An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
▪ He took my right wrist and pressed his thumb tightly against my pulse and then spoke a sentence.
▪ His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.
▪ Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist.
▪ Hamman had stood back then, and held up the tattoo above his right wrist.
▪ He stood in the doorway holding the thirty-eight in his right hand, with his left hand grasping his right wrist.
■ NOUN
injury
▪ His previous appearance in the final came against Peter Sampras, when he was forced to retire with a wrist injury.
▪ Chanda Rubin withdrew from Wimbledon after struggling much of the season with a wrist injury.
▪ A wrist injury is such a difficult injury in shot-putting.
▪ Since Glenallen Hill went down with his wrist injury, the Giants have been suffering a power shortage.
watch
▪ He'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked.
▪ She stands there tapping that thermometer against her wrist watch, eyes whirring while she tries to gauge this new man.
▪ These classic ladies' wrist watches have a teardrop-shaped face and a delicate bracelet to grace your wrist.
▪ Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps.
▪ Sandra was presented with a gold wrist watch and Malcolm with a pocket watch by general manager Ken Burkinshaw.
■ VERB
break
▪ They stuffed a sock into her mouth, pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist.
▪ Plummer, who had appeared in 133 straight regular-season games, broke his left wrist in the first exhibition game last month.
▪ It was so hard and stiff that I was frightened I would break the wrist.
▪ Plummer, who suffered a broken left wrist, is expected to be out until at least early in the regular season.
▪ She broke her wrist and was off work for 4 weeks.
▪ In 1994, they had to withdraw after Roca broke her wrist in a fluke warmup collision.
▪ So what if you break a wrist.
▪ Kaplan is playing limited minutes as she recovers from a broken left wrist.
catch
▪ Two men appeared in front of him, and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side, raising his sword.
▪ Suddenly, before she knew what was happening, he lunged forward and caught her wrist.
▪ She kicked out, catching him on the wrist.
▪ He caught Jehana's wrist and dragged her in pursuit of Jotan and Arkhina.
▪ He caught the man's wrist, smashed the useless Uzi at the oval streaked face set in the black rubber cowl.
▪ He caught Siban's wrist and held it immobile.
▪ Damian caught her wrist, flicked her hard against him.
▪ He caught hold of her wrist.
cut
▪ When I cut my wrists it was night and I made no attempt to get the staff.
▪ Then the Minneapolis librarian cut her wrists, but chose against death and summoned help.
▪ And what was it that had compelled her to cut her wrists?
▪ They take pills, they cut their wrists, they stick a pistol in their mouth.
▪ The first, and by far the largest group, is made up of those who cut their wrists and arms.
▪ He also was shot at, chased by robbers and had to stop to save a woman who had cut her wrists.
▪ Was she so close to Dempster, or the baby for that matter, and so depressed she'd cut her wrists?
▪ He cut his wrists and bled to death.
flick
▪ He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body.
▪ Luke took a few steps forward, then flicking his wrist, sent the lash out at waist-level.
grab
▪ For a moment she feared he would simply step over, grab her wrist, pull out the money.
▪ She got up, tears streaming from her eyes as he grabbed her trembling wrist and put the bracelet on her.
▪ I grabbed his wrist and broke it, spinning him round and holding him up.
▪ We were still talking and laughing when she grabbed both my wrists and dug in.
▪ He grabbed her wrist, and spun her back to face him.
▪ He hesitated, then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped.
▪ I grabbed his wrist, twisting the hand away from my face.
▪ A cop grabbed my wrist and handy-helped me into the street.
grasp
▪ A hand shot out and grasped her wrist.
▪ He stood in the doorway holding the thirty-eight in his right hand, with his left hand grasping his right wrist.
▪ They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room.
▪ Suddenly he leaned forward across the table and grasped my wrist.
grip
▪ One thin white hand gripped his wrist so hard that he yelped.
▪ Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper.
▪ She rushed into the kitchen, gripping her left wrist with her right hand.
▪ Before he could head off for the dustbin, Elinor gripped his wrist firmly.
▪ The door opened, and he gripped her wrist and pulled her through.
▪ Of a sudden Lexandro's free hand gripped Valence's wrist with a power which would have crushed any ordinary bones.
▪ Pike was talking to a waitress and gripping her wrist very tightly.
hold
▪ She ran the water out of the basin and held her wrists under the cold tap until they were numb.
▪ His fingers overlapped as if he were holding her wrist instead.
▪ I stood behind her, holding her wrist as I showed her how.
▪ He caught her easily, holding both wrists in one hand and bringing her hard against him.
▪ I held her by her wrists to keep her delicate fingers out of my pockets.
▪ He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk.
▪ A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head, but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling.
leave
▪ Plummer, who suffered a broken left wrist, is expected to be out until at least early in the regular season.
▪ Moises Alou: still on the bench with a jammed left wrist.
▪ Kaplan is playing limited minutes as she recovers from a broken left wrist.
rub
▪ Then she rubbed her wrists and her forehead with a cologne stick.
seize
▪ As he struck she seized his wrist.
▪ Rohmer seized his wrist and with apparent ease, twisted.
slap
▪ Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists.
slash
▪ Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist.
▪ Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
▪ She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.
▪ On Dec. 30, he attacked Heidi with a broken wine bottle, slashing her right wrist.
▪ Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
▪ Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.
▪ On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists.
▪ In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists.
slit
▪ It couldn't be Emma, could it, with some ghastly news about Cindy Hill slitting her wrists or something?
▪ Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists.
sprain
▪ Once the sweeping machinery fell over and I sprained my wrist.
▪ Now we get rocks when we have indigestion or a sprained wrist.
▪ More than one of our officers sprained his wrist on that job.
▪ Mark Price sat out the game with a sprained right wrist.
tie
▪ The ropes should be around three to four feet long and first get your helper to tie it around your wrists.
▪ When she refused, the attacker grabbed her hair, slapped her and tied her wrists together.
▪ Like the male her hands were tied at the wrists as they lay on her stomach.
▪ But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.
▪ The diagram represents two people each with a loop of rope tied round their wrists and linked together.
▪ You tie his hands and wrists together.
twist
▪ My hands needed to stay still, with my wrists twisting up and down after each stroke to flatten out the oars.
▪ He hesitated, then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped.
▪ I grabbed his wrist, twisting the hand away from my face.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slap on the wrist
▪ In the past, officers who mistreated prisoners often received a mere slap on the wrist.
▪ The fine was so low, it was little more than a slap on the wrist.
▪ So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms.
▪ They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband.
slash your wrists
▪ Four other suicide attempts, including slashing her wrists with a razor blade, were also detailed.
▪ In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists.
▪ Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade.
▪ Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
▪ Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.
▪ On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists.
▪ Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
▪ She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.
twist your ankle/wrist/knee
▪ As he fell, he twisted his ankle.
▪ Harriet slipped on the stairs and twisted her ankle.
▪ If I had twisted my ankle, would people be making such a big deal of it?
▪ One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle.
▪ She twisted her ankle while getting off the lift and had made the long trip down in pain.
▪ Twice in the morning he left the field, limping and in pain after twisting his knee.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
▪ Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist.
▪ Left forearm rotation should not be confused with left wrist rotation, as to many amateurs think.
▪ On her right wrist, just above her glove, a white oval of skin was exposed to the air.
▪ The cubby is also a perfect padded rest for wrist curls.
▪ The unlocked handcuffs dangling from his wrist dragged along the ground as he was lifted into the wagon.
▪ Then tie the rope around her wrists.
▪ We each attach a bracelet to our wrist then press the palm of our other hand on to the metal pad.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrist

Wrist \Wrist\, n. [OE. wriste, wrist, AS. wrist; akin to OFries. wriust, LG. wrist, G. rist wrist, instep, Icel. rist instep, Dan. & Sw. vrist, and perhaps to E. writhe.]

  1. (Anat.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.

    He took me by the wrist, and held me hard.
    --Shak.

  2. (Mach.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.

    Bridle wrist, the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle.

    Wrist clonus. [NL. clonus, fr. Gr. ?. See Clonic.] (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.

    Wrist drop (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.

    Wrist plate (Steam Engine), a swinging plate bearing two or more wrists, for operating the valves.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wrist

Old English wrist, from Proto-Germanic *wristiz (cognates: Old Norse rist "instep," Old Frisian wrist, Middle Dutch wrist, German Rist "back of the hand, instep"), from Proto-Germanic *wreik- "to turn" (see wry). The notion is "the turning joint." Wrist-watch is from 1889. Wrist-band is from 1570s as a part of a sleeve, 1969 as a perspiration absorber.\n

Wiktionary
wrist

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. 2 (context engineering English) A stud or pin which forms a journal.

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WordNet
wrist

n. a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones [syn: carpus, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint, articulatio radiocarpea]

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Wikipedia
Wrist

In human anatomy, the wrist is variously defined as 1) the carpus or carpal bones, the complex of eight bones forming the proximal skeletal segment of the hand; (2) the wrist joint or radiocarpal joint, the joint between the radius and the carpus; and (3) the anatomical region surrounding the carpus including the distal parts of the bones of the forearm and the proximal parts of the metacarpus or five metacarpal bones and the series of joints between these bones, thus referred to as wrist joints. This region also includes the carpal tunnel, the anatomical snuff box, the flexor retinaculum, and the extensor retinaculum.

As a consequence of these various definitions, fractures to the carpal bones are referred to as carpal fractures, while fractures such as distal radius fracture are often considered fractures to the wrist.

Wrist (song)

"Wrist" is a song by American recording artist Chris Brown from his seventh studio album Royalty. It was launched along with on iTunes pre-order albums on December 3, 2015. It was produced by The MeKanics and Khemasis and features guest appearances by Solo Lucci. The song received mixed reviews from music critics and peaked at number 17 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, and number 46 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

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Usage examples of "wrist".

This was nothing unusual, however, so Mary simply broke through the ice and began her morning ablutions, gratefully noticing that gentle movement reduced the soreness in her wrists.

Chrissie, took both her hands and held them gently in his, as aware of her abraded palm as he was aware of his own injured wrist.

He flourished his wrist for just a moment, and Rani ducked her chin, acknowledging the gesture.

The joints of the elbow, wrist, ankle, or toes, may, however, be affected with this disease, but we shall speak of it in this connection as affecting only the knee-joint.

His hair and beard shone with scented oil and he wore a chain of snowy agates around one wrist.

If Aikido can be said to specialize, it is in arm and wrist locks, finger holds and arm throws, but the man surely recognized a good leglock too.

Overwhelmed by a sudden, inexplicable fury, he caught Alec by the wrist and shoved him roughly away.

I quickly transferred aliquots of blood to three different vacutainers, then removed the needle from the syringe, all the while concealing the dot of red on my wrist where the needle had hit me.

She took ambergris from her pack and crumbled it, rubbed the waxy green granules into the soles of her feet, her wrists.

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

Except for his anachronistic wrist recorder, he was the archetype of the questing reporter: Clark Kent, Woodward and Bernstein, and, of course, Lincoln Steffens.

And the steel armature on my left side is light and silent and moves like my own hand and wrist, rather than like a clattering horror of an obsolete machine.

Golden bracelets and armbands gleamed upon each wrist and armthe gifts of grateful kings and princes whom she had served.

Straight did I stand before the grin of Nolthis, the leather to my wrists in his large hand, his eyes arove about me.

Yes it was Atene who would have fallen, Atene who already fell, had not Ayesha put out her hand and caught her by the wrist, bearing all her backward-swaying weight as easily as though she were but an infant, and without effort drawing her to safety.