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Synonyms for leg
lɛgleg
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Princeton's WordNet
legnoun
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchlegnoun
a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchlegnoun
one of the supports for a piece of furniture
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchbranch, leg, ramificationnoun
a part of a forked or branching shape
"he broke off one of the branches"
Synonyms:
branching, stage, ramification, wooden leg, pegleg, peg, arm, offshoot, subdivision, forking, complication, outgrowth, fork, limb, offset, branchlegnoun
the limb of an animal used for food
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchpeg, wooden leg, leg, peglegnoun
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
Synonyms:
branch, stage, nog, pegleg, stick, oarlock, pin, ramification, rowlock, tholepin, wooden leg, peg, tholelegnoun
a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchlegnoun
(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
Synonyms:
peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branchstage, legnoun
a section or portion of a journey or course
"then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
Synonyms:
branch, stage, level, pegleg, peg, stagecoach, degree, point, ramification, wooden leg, phase, microscope stage
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
legnoun
Synonyms:
limb, shank, shin, (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodialeAssociated words:
crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
leg
Synonyms:
crus
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#364 | level | |
#438 | point | |
#1203 | degree | |
#1307 | station | |
#1572 | stage | |
#1993 | phase | |
#2008 | foot | |
#2200 | branch | |
#3071 | pin | |
#3230 | arm | |
#3385 | legs | |
#3387 | stick | |
#4093 | leg | |
#5179 | offset | |
#7405 | fork | |
#8132 | subdivision | |
#11946 | peg | |
#15891 | limb | |
#16725 | thigh | |
#17498 | paw | |
#21338 | branching | |
#25481 | complication | |
#32585 | nog | |
#45740 | stagecoach | |
#50586 | pata | |
#50612 | outgrowth | |
#50673 | tranche | |
#60877 | brisket | |
#61583 | offshoot | |
#65323 | forking | |
#67894 | gea | |
#76931 | ieg | |
#109204 | thole | |
#117351 | ramification | |
#168576 | powa |
How to use leg in a sentence?
I chose early on to accept the loss of my leg. It wasn’t going to grow back, so, I had two choices.I either had to accept it or I could live in that constant state of ‘why me?’ And at Walter Reed (Army Medical Center), you know, I looked around and there were so many that were worse off than I was…missing two, three, four limbs – traumatic brain injuries or eyesight.So, I really felt that I was extremely lucky.
The Central Americans and the Caribbeans sound like a boys school argument. They ought to be thinking about making common cause and not pissing down each others' leg to see who has the biggest bananas.
U.S. dollar strength has buoyed sentiment and lots of exporters and big names in Japan are benefiting as investors chase that dollar strength and dollar asset exposure, taking a bit of wind out of small and mid-cap domestic shares, we've moved 500 points deeper into reaching 20,000, which would fill the gap from the August leg down.
After a while, Mr. Cosby started getting fresh. He was touching me and rubbing my leg. The next thing I remember was waking up in my car, my head hanging down from the seat, alone, i knew I was drugged because I threw up and I never threw up or drank too much. I believe that he must have put something in my drink while we were closing up the place.
A port is the missing leg of the stool in U.S. military engagement with Australia.
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