Michael Caine

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

English Actor

Carl Jung

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Swiss Psychologist

Alvin Toffler

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

American Author

Jason Jones

Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

Donna Lynne Champlin

When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.

American Actress

W. Bruce Cameron

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

Mahershala Ali

I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

American Actor

Minnie Driver

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

English Actress

Troy Polamalu

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

American Athlete

Maynard James Keenan

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

American Singer

Think of 'appendage' as a smaller physical part that visibly connects to a bigger object.

Physical Objects

'Appendage' often suggests the part is not essential for the main object to function.

Not Always Essential

The word can be used metaphorically to refer to things that aren't physically connected.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'appendage' to refer body parts that stick out from the torso in humans and animals.

Human and Animal Body

'Appendage' implies a connection to the main body, whether it's fully functional or not.

Imply Connection

Used in a corporate or organizational context to describe smaller entities or structures attached to larger ones.

Organizational Context

'Appendage' can also refer to abstract additions, like policies or rights, attached to larger concepts.

Not Just Physical

 that promotes limb development in land vertebrates. So although the coelacanth itself isn't a land-walker, its fins do resemble those of its close relatives who first hauled their bodies onto land with the help of these sturdy, flexible appendages, acting as an evolutionary bridge to the land lovers that followed.

The coelacanth: A living...

 with an opposable appendage -- and by the way, chimpanzees don't really have a very good opposable thumb -- so we could actually manipulate our environment with a power grip and fine motor coordination, and use our mental models to actually change the world and bring on technology.

The accelerating power...

 and by fall, they’d unmasked a more horrible truth. Thalidomide, widely used by pregnant women, caused severe birth defects. Thousands of babies died in utero, and tens of thousands more were born with extra appendages, shorter limbs, or no limbs at all.

How one scientist...

 getting outside ourselves beside ourselves creating cognitive appendages new toolkits for the mind taking us to spaces and places beyond mine world and wonderment Adventure is about expanding our minds the outer journey is the inner

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 whole range of neurons and receptors that allow it to determine what's in its environment scientists have debated for years what decades centuries what possible use could an animal have with an appendage like that some people think

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 And when you look across the animal kingdom, you find lots of peripheral devices. So snakes have heat pits with which to detect infrared, and the ghost knifefish has electroreceptors, and the star-nosed mole has this appendage

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 swimming through their liquid environment. The cells use rotating flagella to propel towards the surface of the rock, which they attach to with the help of sticky appendages. Then, they start producing an extracellular matrix

The microbial jungles...

 so this long appendage that we're seeing here is called a proboscis and it's what butterflies use to feed so it's kind of like a modified jaw so two segments kind of come together to

Beautiful Butterfly...

 in the ground to help them hear. Meanwhile, some primates, like the aye-ayes of Madagascar, have re-acquired claws. They use these extra-long appendages to tap branches and trunks,

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 is the peacock's tail. This beautiful but cumbersome tail doesn't exactly help the peacock avoid predators and approach peahens. Why should such an extravagant appendage evolve?