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| 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. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| ben |
| 1. n-n. (anatomy) leg; a body part |
| 2. n-n. leg; part of trousers which covers the legs |
| 3. n-n. the part of a piece furniture on which it stands |
| 4. n-n. (skeleton) bone; any of the components of an endoskeleton |
| 5. n-n. (skeleton) bone; the material of the endoskeleton |
