Shoulder vs. Piggyback: What's the Difference?

The joint connecting the arm with the torso.

On the shoulders or back

The part of the human body between the neck and upper arm.

By or relating to a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.

The joint of a vertebrate animal that connects the forelimb to the trunk.

In connection with something larger or more important

The part of an animal near this joint.

The act of transporting piggyback.

Often shoulders The area of the back from one shoulder to the other.

To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important

A cut of meat including the joint of the foreleg and adjacent parts.

To function as if carried on the back of another

The portion of a garment that covers the shoulder.

On somebody's back or shoulders.

The angle between the face and flank of a bastion in a fortification.

Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.

The area between the body and neck of a bottle or vase.

Attached or appended to something larger or more important.

The end surface of a board from which a tenon projects.

On somebody's back or shoulders.

(Printing) The flat surface on the body of type that extends beyond the letter or character.

(transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.

The edge or border running on either side of a roadway.

(ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

To carry or place (a burden, for example) on a shoulder or on the shoulders.

To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.

To take on; assume

To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.

To push or apply force to with a shoulder

(transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon

To make (one's way) by shoving one's shoulders.

(transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate

To push with a shoulder.

(countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.

To make one's way by shoving one's shoulders.

An act or instance of piggybacking.

The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.

The connection of one intravenous drip to another.

The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.

Ride on someone's shoulders or back

(anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars

A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.

Haul by railroad car

The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.

Carry on the back or shoulders;

Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.

Support on the back and shoulders;

(topography) A shelf between two levels.

On a railroad flatcar;

A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.

On the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip;

The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.

A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.

The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.

An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.

(printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.

(of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.

(music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.

The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.

(firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.

(figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.

The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.Parts of a Yale lock-type key

(surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.

(aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.

(transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

(transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.

(transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.

To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.

To accept responsibility for.

(transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.

(intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.

(transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.

(intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.

Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; - often used in the plural.

Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.

That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.

The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.

The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.

An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.

To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.

To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.

To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side.

The part of the body between the neck and the upper arm

A cut of beef from the shoulder of the animal

A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula

Narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road

Lift onto one's shoulders

Push with the shoulders;

Carry a burden, either real or metaphoric;