anglais > français | |
leg | |
1. n. (Anatomie) Jambe. | |
My leg is bleeding. | |
Ma jambe saigne. | |
2. n. Étape d'un voyage. | |
The first leg of the Tour de France was the most eventful. | |
La première étape du Tour de France fut la plus mouvementée. | |
3. v. (Boucherie) Retirer les pattes de la carcasse d'un animal. | |
anglais > anglais | |
leg | |
1. n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle. | |
Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches. | |
2. n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | |
3. n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. | |
The left leg of these jeans has a tear. | |
4. n. A stage of a journey, race etc. | |
After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip. | |
5. n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. | |
6. n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. | |
7. n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. | |
8. n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. | |
9. n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. | |
10. n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath. | |
the legs of a chair or table | |
11. n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist | |
12. n. (slang) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. | |
13. n. 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 wat | |
14. n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. | |
15. n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter. | |
16. n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. | |
17. n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. | |
18. n. (US, slang) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. | |
19. v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass. | |
20. v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. | |
21. v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. | |
22. v. To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). | |
23. n. abbreviation of legislature | |
One argument made a lot in the leg was that the bill would simplify voting. | |
24. adj. abbreviation of legislative | |
The party wants to tackle social issues in the next leg term. | |
français > anglais | |
jambe | |
1. n-f. leg | |
Il marche sur ses deux jambes. - He walks with his two legs. | |
par-dessus la jambe - off-handedly | |