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LEG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A section or portion of a journey or course
Example:
then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
fare-stage (a section along the route of a bus for which the fare is the same)
Holonyms ("leg" is a part of...):
journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
distance; length (size of the gap between two places)
Domain category:
navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
cloth covering (a covering made of cloth)
Meronyms (parts of "leg"):
cuff; turnup (the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg)
foot (a support resembling a pedal extremity)
knee (the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
pant leg; trouser leg (the leg of a pair of trousers)
Holonyms ("leg" is a part of...):
pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)
Derivation:
leggy (having long legs)
Sense 4
Meaning:
One of the supports for a piece of furniture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)
Holonyms ("leg" is a part of...):
chair (a seat for one person, with a support for the back)
camp bed; cot (a small bed that folds up for storage or transport)
four-poster (a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains)
grand; grand piano (a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs)
hospital bed (a single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required)
spinning wheel (a small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot)
table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)
tripod (a three-legged rack used for support)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
Synonyms:
leg; peg; pegleg; wooden leg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
prosthesis; prosthetic device (corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)
Meronyms (parts of "leg"):
genu valgum; knock-knee; tibia valga (an inward slant of the thigh)
shin; shin bone; shinbone; tibia (the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle)
calf bone; fibula (the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle)
leg bone (a bone of the leg)
musculus tibialis; tibialis; tibialis muscle (either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot)
ankle; ankle joint; articulatio talocruralis; mortise joint (a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus)
articulatio genus; genu; human knee; knee; knee joint (hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella)
nervus saphenus; saphenous nerve (a branch of the femoral nerve that supplies cutaneous branches to the inner aspect of the leg and foot)
nervus ischiadicus; sciatic nerve (arises from the sacral plexus and passes about halfway down the thigh where it divides into the common peroneal and tibial nerves)
foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)
shin (the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle)
shank (the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle)
thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)
fibular vein; peroneal vein; vena peroneus (accompany the peroneal arteries; arising in the heel and running up the back of the leg to join the posterior tibial veins of the popliteal vein)
saphenous vein; vena saphena (either of two chief superficial veins of the leg that drain blood from the foot)
tibial vein; vena tibialis (veins of the lower leg; empty into the popliteal vein)
crus (the leg from the knee to foot)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
spindlelegs; spindleshanks (long thin legs)
peg; pin; stick (informal terms for the leg)
bandy leg; bandyleg; bow leg; bowleg; genu varum; tibia vara (a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee))
shank's mare; shank's pony; shanks' mare; shanks' pony (you own legs)
Holonyms ("leg" is a part of...):
body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
Derivation:
leggy (having long legs)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
limb (one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper)
Meronyms (parts of "leg"):
pedal extremity; vertebrate foot (the extremity of the limb in vertebrates)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
prehensor (the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths)
animal leg (the leg of an animal)
Derivation:
leggy (having long legs)
Sense 8
Meaning:
The limb of an animal used for food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
ham hock (a small cut of meat from the leg just above the foot)
gigot; leg of lamb (lamb leg suitable for roasting)
Sense 9
Meaning:
A part of a forked or branching shape
Example:
he broke off one of the branches
Synonyms:
branch; leg; ramification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("leg" is a kind of...):
subfigure (a figure that is a part of another figure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leg"):
bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))
brachium ((biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal)
crotch; fork (the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches)
Holonyms ("leg" is a part of...):
forking; furcation (the place where something divides into branches)
Context examples:
Regional anesthesia is a loss of feeling in a part of the body, such as an arm or leg.
(Anesthesia, NCI Dictionary)
The back is short relative to leg length.
(Anatolian Shepherd Dog, NCI Thesaurus)
Then I would take the other's spear into my arm or my leg, or where it pleased him best to put it, and I would dash out his brains with my club.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The great breast and heavy fore legs were no more than in proportion with the rest of the body, where the muscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The lesions are usually found on the leg.
(Necrobiosis Lipoidica, NCI Thesaurus)
He was a very large man, with noble shoulders, small waist, broad hips, well-turned legs, and the smallest of hands and feet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; do you ever have any prickling feelings in your legs or feet?
(MNSI - Prickling Feelings Legs/Feet, NCI Thesaurus)
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; do you get muscle cramps in your legs and/or feet?
(MNSI - Muscle Cramps Legs/Feet, NCI Thesaurus)
Has that fellow”—to the man with the wooden leg—“been here again?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; do your legs hurt when you walk?
(MNSI - Legs Hurt When Walking, NCI Thesaurus)
