leg meaning

Noun: leg  leg

1. A human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle 
2. A structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion 
3. One of the supports for a piece of furniture 
4. A part of a forked or branching shape
   - branch, ramification 
5. The limb of an animal used for food 
6. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
   - peg, wooden leg, pegleg 
7. A cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg 
8. (nautical) the distance travelled by a sailing vessel on a single tack 
9. A section or portion of a journey or course
   - stage

Derived forms: legs

See also: leggy

Type of: cloth covering, cut, cut of meat, distance, length, limb, prosthesis, prosthetic device, subfigure, support, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: body, camp bed [Brit], chair, cot, dack [Austral, NZ], dak [Austral, NZ], forking, four-poster, furcation, grand, grand piano, hospital bed, journey, journeying, organic structure, pant [N. Amer], physical structure, spinning wheel, table, tripod, trouser

Encyclopedia: Leg Leg, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

[Business]
noun

IDIOMS

have, gain, grow legs (informal)

if you say that sth has legs, you mean that it will continue, or people will be interested in it, for a long time:

Some investors think the rally (in share prices) still has legs.

It's too early to tell if this idea has legs.

[Economics]
One element in a complex set of transactions.

See:

breaking a leg, straddle.

[Electronics]
1. Any one of the distinct branches of a circuit or network; also called ARM or BRANCH.
2. In a computer program, a path in a routine or subroutine.

[Finance]
A prolonged trend in stock market prices, such as a multiple-period bull market; or, an option that is one side of a spread transaction. See: Lifting a leg.

[Medicine]
The inferior part of the lower extremity between the KNEE and the ANKLE. n : a limb of an animal used esp. for supporting the body and for walking: as
a : either of the two lower human limbs that extend from the top of the thigh to the foot and esp. the part between the knee and the ankle
b : any of the rather generalized segmental appendages of an arthropod used in walking and crawling

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• a leg up:    [American slang]Fi ...

Examples

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1. the accident left a scar on her leg.
2. karen's right leg was crossed over her left.
3. she went out to stretch her legs after lunch.
4. we'd better shade a leg or we'll be late.
5. the poor old horse is on its last legs.