wrist

CEFRA2

/ɹɪst/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The joint connecting your hand to your arm.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A stud or pin which forms a journal.

Examples

  • The man caught the girl by the wrist.

  • The policeman caught me by the wrist.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To hit a wrist shot.

  2. The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.

More examples

In context

  • With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The watch was fastened tightly around his blank before his morning run.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.