Definition of Wrist

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Definition of Wrist
	Wrist The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus. A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin. Related Definitions: Also, And, Arm, Between, Called, Carpus, Hand, Joint, Journal, Of, Or, Pin, Region, See, Stud, The, Which, Wrist

Wrist Quotations

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
Keith Emerson

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
Yancy Butler

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Duke Snider

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
Larry Craig

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
Helen Frankenthaler

Wrist Translations

wrist in Dutch is pols, handwortel
wrist in French is poignet
wrist in German is Handgelenk, Handgelenks, Handgelenk
wrist in Italian is polso
wrist in Portuguese is pulso
wrist in Swedish is handled

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