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The word leg is in the Wiktionary

101 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • leg n. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
  • leg n. In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
  • leg n. (Anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
  • leg n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
  • leg n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
  • leg n. (Figurative) Something that supports.
  • leg n. A stage of a journey, race etc.
  • leg n. (Nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
  • leg n. (Nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
  • leg n. (Sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
  • leg n. (Geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
  • leg n. (Geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
  • leg n. (Usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
  • leg n. (UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
  • leg n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes…
  • leg n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  • leg n. (Cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman’s legs; the left…
  • leg n. (Telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
  • leg n. (Electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
  • leg n. (Finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
  • leg n. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
  • leg n. (Archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
  • leg n. (Journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
  • leg v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
  • leg v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
  • leg v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
  • leg v. To apply force using the leg (as in ’to leg a horse’).
  • leg n. Alternative spelling of leg.
  • leg adj. Alternative spelling of leg.
  • leg. n. (Canada) Clipping of legislature.
  • leg. n. (Colloquial) Clipping of legend.
  • leg. n. Abbreviation of legislation.
  • leg. n. Abbreviation of legate.
  • leg. adj. Abbreviation of legal.
  • leg. adj. Abbreviation of legislative.
  • leg. adv. (Music) Abbreviation of legato.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Aromanian
    • leg v. I tie, bind.
  • Catalan
  • Danish
    • leg n. Play, game.
    • leg n. (Zoology) spawning (fish).
  • Danish - Norwegian bokmål
    • leg v. Imperative of lege.
  • Dupaningan agta
    • leg n. Neck; throat.
  • Emilian
  • Hungarian
    • leg n. (Chiefly in the plural, informal) best, most (record-setting achievement, property or amount).
    • leg n. (Darts) leg (single game played in darts).
    • lég n. Air, atmosphere.
    • lég n. Air-, aerial (in compound words).
    • -leg suff. (Adverb-forming suffix) -ly. Added to a word to form an adverb. Today it is mainly used with adjectives…
    • -leg suff. (Noun-forming suffix) Added to a verb to form a noun. It is no longer productive in this role.
    • -leg suff. (Frequentative verb-forming suffix, rare) Added to a stem to form a verb denoting repetitive action.
    • leg- pref. (Adjective prefix) -est, most, -most. Used to form the superlative. Mostly from comparative adjectives…
  • Icelandic
    • leg n. Uterus.
    • -leg suff. Feminine singular nominative strong positive degree of -legur, neuter plural nominative strong positive…
  • Lombard
  • Middle english
    • leg n. Leg, limb.
    • leg n. Shank, shin.
    • leg n. Leg (cut of meat).
    • leg n. Leg armour.
    • leg n. The stem of a wine glass.
  • Norwegian nynorsk
  • Old irish
    • lég v. Third-person singular preterite conjunct of légaid.
  • Old norse
    • leg n. Burial place.
  • Polish
    • leg n. Genitive plural of lega.
    • lęg n. The act of hatching or eclosion.
    • lęg n. A clutch of eggs.
    • lęg n. A brood (group of hatchlings from the same clutch of eggs).
    • lęg n. Genitive plural of ląg.
    • łęg n. Flood-meadow.
    • łęg n. Riparian forest.
  • Romanian
    • leg v. First-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of lega.
  • Swedish
    • leg adj. Certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.
    • leg n. (Colloquial) an ID card or other means of identification showing the owner’s age; an ID; abbreviation…
  • Torres strait creole
    • leg n. Lower leg, foot.
  • Westrobothnian
    • leg n. Afterbirth from calving.
  • Wolof
— English words, defined in German —
  • leg S. Das Bein.
  • leg S. Hinterer Oberschenkel vom Schlachtvieh.
  • leg S. Sport: begrenzter Abschnitt eines Wettkampfs.
  • leg S. Mathematik: die Kathete, der Schenkel.
— English word, defined in Dutch —
  • leg n. (Anatomie) been.
— English words, defined in French —
  • leg n. (Anatomie) Jambe.
  • leg n. Étape d’un voyage.
  • leg n. (Métallurgie) Largeur d’un cordon de soudure d’angle, notée en général z.
  • leg v. (Boucherie) Retirer les pattes de la carcasse d’un animal.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • leg s. Anatomía. Pierna.
  • leg s. Zootomía. Pata.
  • leg s. Pernera.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • leg s. Perna.
  • leg s. Etapa (de uma viagem).
— English word, defined in Italian —
  • leg s. Gamba.
— In German —
  • leg V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legen.
  • leg. Abk. Legal.
  • leg. Abk. Legalisiert.
  • leg. Abk. Legitim/legitimiert.
  • leg. Abk. Musik: legato.
— In Dutch —
  • leg n. Het leggen van eieren.
  • leg w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van leggen.
  • leg w. Gebiedende wijs van leggen.
  • leg w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van leggen.
— In French —
  • Leg n.prop. (Géographie) Hameau des Pays-Bas situé dans la commune…
341 English words from 76 English definitions

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34 English words from 25 foreign definitions

angle animal Bas been Bein commune cordon dans Das der des die Étape Gamba Het Jambe Kathete Legal legato Legitim les Pata pattes Pays Perna Person Retirer Schenkel Singular Sport van Verbs vom voyage

1 foreign word from 76 English definitions

lega

52 foreign words from 25 foreign definitions

Abschnitt Aktiv Anatomía Anatomie begrenzter Bij Boucherie carcasse cordon␣de␣soudure de␣la Eerste Eerste␣persoon eieren eines en␣général enkelvoud Etapa Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs général Géographie Hameau Hinterer Imperativ inversie Largeur Legalisiert legen leggen legitimiert Mathematik Métallurgie Musik notée Oberschenkel Pays-Bas Pernera persoon Pierna Präsens Schlachtvieh situé soudure tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon uma viagem Wettkampfs wijs Zootomía

594 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Lega lege Lege Legg lego Lego LEGO legs legal Legal Legan Legas legat LegCo leged leger Leger Leges legg'd legge Legge leggo leggy legis. Legis. legit leg␣it Le␣God legos Legos LEGOs legua Legum leg␣up legacy legals Legans Legare leg␣art legate Legate legato leg␣bye leg␣day legend Legend Legere legers Legers legful +544 words

1750 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

blegh blegs clegg Clegg clegs elegy flegs glegs Hlegu alegal alegar aleger alegge Alegre allege Blegen cleggs Cleggs eclegm elegit Flegel Galego glegly hylegs Kilegi phlegm plegia -plegia -plegic telega telegi airlegs alegged alegges Alegres Allegan alleged alleger alleges allegge Allegra allegro Blegens blegged bowlegs college delegee doglegs eclegms elegant +1700 words

104 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bleg cleg fleg gleg hyleg on␣leg Peleg airleg bowleg boyleg dogleg dog-leg hogleg hog␣leg midleg peg-leg peg␣leg proleg redleg red-leg base␣leg bootleg deadleg dead-leg dead␣leg fine␣leg foreleg gateleg good␣leg highleg hindleg hind␣leg hog's␣leg jackleg jake␣leg milk␣leg pantleg pant␣leg propleg puffleg puff-leg Bassaleg blackleg first␣leg hang␣a␣leg interleg jocteleg made␣a␣leg make␣a␣leg mare's␣leg +54 words

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

gel

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ElG ELG gel LGE

63 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Belg. bleg CGEL cleg egal Egle Egli ElGs ELGs Engl Engl. fleg Gael gale Gale geal Gehl Geil geld gell Gell gels gelt gen'l Gile glee gleg glei glen Glen glew gley glue goel Goel gole -grel -grel- Guel gule gyle lage leag Lega lege Lege Legg lego Lego LEGO +13 words

23 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

eg EG E&G e.g. e.␣g. el El EL -el ge gE Ge GE Gl GL g/l le Le LE -le lg LG lg.

99 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

beg Beg deg dEG DEG deg. EEG geg Geg jeg keg lag LAG LCG lea Lea LEA Leb LEB Leb. LEC led LED lee Lee l'ee leh Leh lei Lei Lei. lek Lek lel LEL Lem LEM L.E.M. Len leo Leo LEO lep LEP Ler les Les LES -les- let -let leu LEU lev LEV lev- Lev. lew Lew lex Lex ley Ley lez Lez LFG lig lig. LKG LLG LMG LNG log -log LPG LQG LRG LTG lug Lug LUG meg Meg MEG meg- neg neg. peg Peg PEG peg- reg Reg seg teg TEG veg WEG yeg

12 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

eg EG E&G e.g. e.␣g. le Le LE -le lg LG lg.

4 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

leag Legg leng Lieg


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