| 单词 | leg |
| 释义 | leg (once / 66 pages) 1n 2n A leg is the part of a person's body that they use to walk around. All legs, including those of humans and tables alike, are meant to support. Your leg is the appendage that stretches from your hip to your ankle, bending handily at the knee so you can run, walk, jump, sit, and skip. You probably also use the word leg to refer to one side of your pants; a support holding a table up; and one separate section of a long trip: "I'm stopping for coffee on the next leg of my journey." Leg probably comes from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to bend." WORD FAMILYleg: foreleg, leggy, legless, leglike, legs+/foreleg: forelegs/leggy: leggier, leggiest, leggily/legs: legses USAGE EXAMPLESOakland already was without its quarterback and league MVP candidate, Derek Carr, after he suffered a broken bone in his leg. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) His right leg got caught beneath him, and he stayed on the ground, then hobbled off with help, putting no pressure on his left leg. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) He says the gunman was walking on that bench, then looked down and shot him in the leg. Time(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle Hypo|Hyper peg, pin, stick informal terms for the leg bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia varaa leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) shank's mare, shank's pony, shanks' mare, shanks' ponyyou own legs spindlelegs, spindleshankslong thin legs limb one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper 2n a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion Hypo|Hyper prehensor the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths animal legthe leg of an animal limb one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper 3n the limb of an animal used for food Hypo|Hyper ham hock a small cut of meat from the leg just above the foot gigot, leg of lamblamb leg suitable for roasting cut, cut of meat a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass 4n a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg Syn|Hyper peg, pegleg, wooden leg prosthesis, prosthetic device corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body 5n a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg Hypo|Hyper pant leg, trouser leg the leg of a pair of trousers cloth covering a covering made of cloth 6n one of the supports for a piece of furniture Hyper support any device that bears the weight of another thing 7n a part of a forked or branching shape Syn|Hypo|Hyper branch, ramification bifurcation a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) brachium(biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal crotch, forkthe region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches subfigure a figure that is a part of another figure 8n a section or portion of a journey or course 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper stage fare-stage a section along the route of a bus for which the fare is the same travel, traveling, travelling the act of going from one place to another n (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack Hyper distance, length size of the gap between two places |
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