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What does leg mean?

Definitions in simple English

leg Noun

— Your legs are the two long parts of your body that you move to walk, or a similar body part on an animal. I lost a leg in the war. The footballer broke a leg during the game. The bus stopped and everybody went out to stretch their legs. — A leg is part of a piece of furniture, such as a table, on which the furniture stands. I can see an ant crawling up the leg of the table. — A leg is part of a tour or journey. The band had to cancel the German leg of their European tour.

leg

— noun a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle — noun a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion — noun one of the supports for a piece of furniture — noun (= branch) a part of a forked or branching shape he broke off one of the branches — noun a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg — noun (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack — noun the limb of an animal used for food — noun (= stage) a section or portion of a journey or course then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise — noun a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Synonyms leg synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as leg?

leg English » English

foot thigh shank lower leg shin paw stage branch calf limb peg base wooden leg support stick stem pegleg lower limb lower front leg foundation wheel upper leg tibia stalk staff side segment section ramification prop pin pillar pedestal hind leg feet cathetus bypass weight weak walk lamely upright upper twig trouser leg tributary line toe tie rod thighs tentaculum

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Legal Department

Topics leg topics

What do people use leg to talk about?

Person Body Limb

Leg

What general words refer to the entire leg?

leg
What are the parts of the leg?

upper leg groin thigh knee kneecap lower leg calf shin ankle 'wing' foot heel sole ball of foot the outside part of foot instep arch shank

Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing

What words refer to parts of clothing?

belt loop bodice collar cowl crease cuff fringe hem hood lapel leg neck neckband neckline placket pocket sash seam seat shirttail skirt sleeve slit tassel waist waistband waistline

Person Healthy Injure

Amputate

What things are used by a person who has lost a limb?

artificial limb wooden leg peg leg prosthesis

Universe, creation Animal

Jump

What words refer to jumping on one leg?

hop hop on one leg hop around skip

Examples leg examples

How do I use leg in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The soldier was wounded in the leg.

Break a leg.

She went to school in spite of the pain in her leg.

Tom had only one leg.

Tom broke his leg.

You broke your leg.

My leg hurts.

Sami kept his hand on Layla's leg.

This chair is missing a leg.

It costs an arm and a leg.

I'll be about again when my leg heals.

I can't walk because of my broken leg.

Roger slipped on the ice and hurt his leg.

A ball hit her on the right leg.

The soldier was wounded in the leg and couldn't move.

The crane was standing on one leg.

I slipped on the paper and hurt my leg.

That diamond ring cost an arm and a leg.

A shark snapped the man's leg off.

Tom broke his right leg and was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas.

A dog bit her on the leg.

Were you just pulling my leg when you said we were all going to get extra bonuses?

This drawing is less than great. He needs to do something with the line here at the back of the leg.

Movie subtitles

Did he tell me to buy front leg?

Or back leg?

Okay, relax. Relax your leg.

Relax your leg. Okay.

I thought something touched my leg.

His leg will be in a cast and he'll be on crutches, which generally makes life quite exciting for small boys.

I must've pulled a muscle in my leg.

She said her leg hurt!

You don't have a leg to stand on.

Tie the strap around your leg.

My God, Gizella, what's happened to your leg?

Beans, you homely-lookin' son of a frog's leg. - What do you think I want?

They cut my leg off.

Amputated leg.

Shake a leg.

Are you trying to pull my leg?

Pull your leg?

When I was your age, I'd have given my right leg for one of those.

Oh, my leg! Get me down!

Get the scissors and cut the leg off.

The leg of the pants!

The tubes were mostly concealed, running up a trouser leg.

If he worries you, gentlemen, shoot and give him a bad leg.

Yes, London's gone leg-conscious.

The man has a bad leg.

For the loss of a right leg, 500.

Left leg, 400.

A leg.

Relax your leg.

Beans, you homely-lookin' son of a frog's leg.

They had to amputate his leg.

Did they cut my leg off?

Come on, everybody shake a leg, let's all dance.

I was explaining to her ladyship about poor Alfred's bad leg.

Bad leg?

News and current affairs

He recognized that Ceausescu was doomed. Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.

Trying Keynesian therapy to resolve, say, the structural problems currently affecting the countries of southern Europe would be like trying to cure a broken leg with heart medicine.

The inaction argument is really terribly negligent, because it causes us to recommend aspirin and lose sight of smarter actions that might actually save the leg.

We would never accept medical practitioners advising ultra-expensive and ineffective aspirins for gangrene because the cost of aspirin outweighs the cost of losing the leg.

Think of this action as akin to a surgery that replaces a healthy leg with an artificial limb.

The most important leg is the Nonproliferation Treaty of 1969.

The second leg is the bipolar Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) between Moscow and Washington.

The third leg is the Test-ban Treaty, which, like the NPT, is universal in scope.

Although each leg originated independently of the other, they are now interdependent. None is likely to survive without the other two.

For example, almost everyone agrees that a broken leg or pneumonia are bad things to have.

According to this view, broad agreement about the causes of and cures for mental illness will make politics irrelevant, just as a broken leg or a heart attack are not really political in content today.

Germany has dragged its feet on fiscal stimulus, stymieing what should have been the second leg of a globally coordinated fiscal action plan.

As the third leg of the stool, IDUs need counseling.

European leaders always understood that economic union needs to have a political leg to stand on.

But the last leg of the journey - to Mecca itself - remained a monopoly of the camel-owning Bedouin.

This would also affect the leg that survived, because the PTAs would increasingly take over the functions of rule-making as well.

The integration of sourcing with logistics and retail will become the third leg of the stool.

Having this mixture helps ensure that if technological developments render one leg vulnerable, the others can still threaten sufficient retaliation.

China, too, has now reached this critical last leg of the long march to advanced-country status in terms of economic structure and income levels.

Pretending to have a broken leg, he stalled in making his reappearance.

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to India, the main leg of a recent tour of Central and South Asia, sheds new light on China's emerging approach to its neighbors, particularly Asia's other giant.

Although each leg originated independently of the other, they are now interdependent.