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Definitions and meaning of leg

leg

Etymology 1

From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(ǝ)lak-, *lēk- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”).

Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ‎ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /lɛɡ/
  • (some US dialects) IPA(key): /leɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

leg (plural legs)

  1. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
  2. In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
  3. (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
  4. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
  5. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
  6. (figuratively) Something that supports.
  7. A stage of a journey, race etc.
  8. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
  9. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
  10. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
  11. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
  12. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
  13. (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
  14. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
  15. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
  16. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  17. (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
    Synonym: on; Antonym: off
  18. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
  19. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
  20. (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
  21. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
  22. (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:
      Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles.
  23. (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
    • 2015, Homer L. Hall, ‎Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)
      A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.
Alternative forms
  • legge (obsolete)
Synonyms
  • (side of a right triangle): cathetus
Derived terms
Translations

See leg/translations § Noun.

See also

Verb

leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)

  1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
  3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  4. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Derived terms
  • leg it

References

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛdʒ/
  • Homophone: ledge

Noun

leg (plural not attested)

  1. Abbreviation of legislature.
  2. Abbreviation of legend.

Adjective

leg (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of legislative.

Anagrams

  • ELG, ElG, gel

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • legu

Etymology

From Latin ligō. Compare Romanian lega, leg.

Verb

leg (second-person singular present indicative ledz, third-person singular present indicative leadzi or leadze, second-person plural present indicative ligats, past participle ligatã)

  1. I tie, bind.

Related terms

  • ligari / ligare
  • ligat
  • ligãturã
  • ligãmintu
  • dizleg

See also

  • adun
  • mpriunedz

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɑjˀ]
  • Homophone: lej
  • Rhymes: -aj

Etymology 1

From Old Norse leikr, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz.

Noun

leg c (singular definite legen, plural indefinite lege)

  1. play, game
  2. (zoology) spawning (fish)
Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

leg

  1. imperative of lege

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

leg

  1. neck; throat

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛx/
  • Rhymes: -ɛx

Verb

leg

  1. first-person singular present indicative of leggen
  2. imperative of leggen

Anagrams

  • gel

German

Alternative forms

  • lege

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leːk/

Verb

leg

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of legen
  2. singular imperative of legen
  3. (colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen
  4. (colloquial) third-person singular subjunctive I of legen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: leg
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Back-formation from leg- (prefix forming superlative adjectives).

Noun

leg (plural legek)

  1. (chiefly in the plural, informal) best, most (record-setting achievement, property or amount)
Declension

Etymology 2

From English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”).

Noun

leg (plural legek)

  1. (darts) leg (single game played in darts)
Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛːɣ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːɣ

Noun

leg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg)

  1. uterus

Declension

Derived terms

  • leggöng
  • legháls
  • leghálssýking
  • legnám

Lombard

Etymology 1

Akin to Italian legge, from Latin lex.

Noun

leg

  1. law

Etymology 2

Akin to Italian leggere, from Latin legere.

Verb

leg

  1. to read

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • legge, leggue, leige, lige

Etymology

From Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛɡ/

Noun

leg (plural legges)

  1. leg, limb
  2. shank, shin
  3. leg (cut of meat)
  4. leg armour
  5. The stem of a wine glass

Descendants

  • English: leg
  • Scots: leg

References

  • “leg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

leg

  1. imperative of lege

Old Norse

Noun

leg n

  1. burial place

Declension

Derived terms

  • legkaup n (“burial fee”)
  • legstaðr m (“burial place”)
  • legsteinn m (“tombstone”)

References

  • leg in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛk/
  • Homophone: lek

Noun

leg

  1. genitive plural of lega

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [leɡ]

Verb

leg

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lega
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of lega

Swedish

Adjective

leg

  1. certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.

Noun

leg n

  1. (slang) ID card showing the owner's age; abbreviation of legitimation.

Declension

See also

  • lägg

Anagrams

  • elg

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English leg.

Noun

leg

  1. lower leg, foot

Synonyms

  • ngar (western dialect)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse leg.

Noun

leg n (definite leje, dative lejen)

  1. afterbirth from calving
Synonyms
  • ättföring f
  • li n

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to walk briskly.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)