Crutch
noun
A stick that people put under their arm to help them walk if they have an injury.
After breaking his leg, he used a crutch to help him walk.
noun
Something that someone depends on too much for help or support.
He uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness.
noun
A stick that people put under their arm to help them walk if they have an injury.
After breaking his leg, he used a crutch to help him walk.
noun
Something that someone depends on too much for help or support.
He uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness.
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Aid
Refers to a physical object that assists with mobility.
She leaned on her crutch to navigate the stairs.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Support
Used during recovery, indicating it's not for permanent use.
After the surgery, crutches were vital for his hospital discharge.
Pro Tip 3/3Injury Association
Commonly associated with leg or foot injuries.
With a broken ankle, she could only move around on crutches.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Aid
Refers to a physical object that assists with mobility.
She leaned on her crutch to navigate the stairs.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Support
Used during recovery, indicating it's not for permanent use.
After the surgery, crutches were vital for his hospital discharge.
Pro Tip 3/3Injury Association
Commonly associated with leg or foot injuries.
With a broken ankle, she could only move around on crutches.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Aid
Refers to a physical object that assists with mobility.
She leaned on her crutch to navigate the stairs.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary Support
Used during recovery, indicating it's not for permanent use.
After the surgery, crutches were vital for his hospital discharge.
Pro Tip 3/3Injury Association
Commonly associated with leg or foot injuries.
With a broken ankle, she could only move around on crutches.
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The Making of Walking...
around so that it can walk it's very odd it doesn't match anything in nature today what we've had to parallel it as is something like a an old man on crutches works it just feels too fun tomorrow it doesn't feel like anything that would actually exist and walk like this it's not imbalanced put a bit of
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How Your Memory Works --...
Which brings me to an important point. Many of you are worried that if you use Google to look up your blocked words then you're cheating and contributing to the problem, weakening your memory. You're worried that Google is a high-tech crutch that's going to give you digital amnesia.
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Why people believe weird...
I actually went to see this one. There was a lot of people there. The faithful come in their wheelchairs and crutches, and so on. We went down and investigated. Just to give you a size, that's Dawkins, me and The Amazing Randi, next to this two, two and a half story-sized image.
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Why doesn't everyone...
to split and balance the thrust. Working with the back engine, these provided three-points of stability, which some pilots describe as being akin to comfortably leaning on crutches while a friend supports your back. It may seem complicated to manage all these engines at once,
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Bruce Feiler: The...
but it really changed us. And that is, the secret of the Council of Dads, is that my wife and I did this in an attempt to help our daughters, but it really changed us. So I stand here today as you see now, walking without crutches or a cane.
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How to overcome apathy...
So, one day, while we were sitting in the office, a farm worker comes in. And he's paralyzed, he can hardly walk, he has a crutch. And he needs help. He needs someone to help him go down to the welfare office and make an application.
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Eythor Bender demos...
sensors in the crutches that send signals back to our onboard computer that is sitting here at her back. There are battery packs here as well that power motors that are sitting at her hips, as well as her knee joints,
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Latif Nasser: The...
including four spine operations, and hip replacement after hip replacement. He could barely raise his arm, turn his neck. He needed aluminum crutches to walk. His friends and former students became his doctors.
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This Carpenter Builds...
went around the children's world to see young children face some difficulties how to move i was so touched so that i know i've got that skill to make them good in crutches to help them to move early
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Luis H. Zayas: The...
and that's when his parents said, "We have got to leave or they will kill us." So they set out. But Danny's father was a single-leg amputee with a crutch, and he couldn't manage the rugged terrain.
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The Making of Walking...
around so that it can walk it's very odd it doesn't match anything in nature today what we've had to parallel it as is something like a an old man on crutches works it just feels too fun tomorrow it doesn't feel like anything that would actually exist and walk like this it's not imbalanced put a bit of
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How Your Memory Works --...
Which brings me to an important point. Many of you are worried that if you use Google to look up your blocked words then you're cheating and contributing to the problem, weakening your memory. You're worried that Google is a high-tech crutch that's going to give you digital amnesia.
Video examples
Why people believe weird...
I actually went to see this one. There was a lot of people there. The faithful come in their wheelchairs and crutches, and so on. We went down and investigated. Just to give you a size, that's Dawkins, me and The Amazing Randi, next to this two, two and a half story-sized image.
Video examples
Why doesn't everyone...
to split and balance the thrust. Working with the back engine, these provided three-points of stability, which some pilots describe as being akin to comfortably leaning on crutches while a friend supports your back. It may seem complicated to manage all these engines at once,
Video examples
Bruce Feiler: The...
but it really changed us. And that is, the secret of the Council of Dads, is that my wife and I did this in an attempt to help our daughters, but it really changed us. So I stand here today as you see now, walking without crutches or a cane.
Video examples
How to overcome apathy...
So, one day, while we were sitting in the office, a farm worker comes in. And he's paralyzed, he can hardly walk, he has a crutch. And he needs help. He needs someone to help him go down to the welfare office and make an application.
Video examples
Eythor Bender demos...
sensors in the crutches that send signals back to our onboard computer that is sitting here at her back. There are battery packs here as well that power motors that are sitting at her hips, as well as her knee joints,
Video examples
Latif Nasser: The...
including four spine operations, and hip replacement after hip replacement. He could barely raise his arm, turn his neck. He needed aluminum crutches to walk. His friends and former students became his doctors.
Video examples
This Carpenter Builds...
went around the children's world to see young children face some difficulties how to move i was so touched so that i know i've got that skill to make them good in crutches to help them to move early
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Luis H. Zayas: The...
and that's when his parents said, "We have got to leave or they will kill us." So they set out. But Danny's father was a single-leg amputee with a crutch, and he couldn't manage the rugged terrain.
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Natalie Cole
American Musician
I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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Allison Schroeder
American Producer
When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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Jill McCorkle
American Novelist
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
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Shweta Basu Prasad
Indian Actress
All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.
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Columbus Short
American Actor
If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.
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Karl Kraus
Austrian Writer
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Michael Jordan
American Basketball Player
My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.
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Steve Harvey
American Actor
My color's not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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Natalie Cole
American Musician
I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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Allison Schroeder
American Producer
When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
Quote examples
Jill McCorkle
American Novelist
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
Quote examples
Shweta Basu Prasad
Indian Actress
All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.
Quote examples
Columbus Short
American Actor
If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.
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Karl Kraus
Austrian Writer
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Michael Jordan
American Basketball Player
My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.
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Steve Harvey
American Actor
My color's not a crutch. See, funny crosses a lot of color barriers.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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