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leg | American Dictionary

leg
noun
us/leɡ/

legnoun (BODY PART)

[ C/U ]
one of the parts of a human or animal body that is used for standing or walking, or one of the thin, vertical parts on which a piece of furniture stands:
[ C ]He broke his leg skiing.
[ C ]The table has carved legs.
[ U ]We had leg of lamb for dinner.
[ C/U ]
The leg of a piece of clothing is the part you put your leg into.

legnoun (STAGE)

[ C ]
a part of a trip, competition, or activity that has several stages:
the last leg of the race

legnoun (SIDE)

[ C ] geometry
either one of the two sides that form the angle of 90° in a right triangle

leg | Business English

leg
noun
uk /leɡ/us
[ C ] TRANSPORT
one of the parts of a long journey:
the first/final legOn the final leg of the flight we sat in economy class.
 not have a leg to stand on
to not have any way of supporting your opinion or defending your position on something:
The State Department doesn't have a leg to stand on if it's going to contradict its own analysis.
 have legsinformal
an idea or suggestion that has legs is considered to be something worth developing further:
We're looking at the proposed legislation and we think it's got legs.

Examples of leg

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The most recent prosthetic legs now can adapt their gait to different surfaces and activities.
Open and closed-loop control algorithms were studied for vertical motion analysis considering linear springy telescopic leg.
Then the chair leg is no longer visible.
Undoubtedly, if they had wanted to they could have produced naturalistic clay animals, with heads and legs, for example.
Considering all the parameters of the kinematic chain of one robot's leg is difficult in practice.
Since a pair of legs is simultaneously lifted off and placed, the quadruped gait resulting from the algorithm belongs to a singular gait.
Since there is no parallelogram in the third leg, the architecture of the new manipulator is simpler.
Subsystem 2 represents the elastic footpad of the biped's leg.
Leg-ends were equipped with contact sensors (6 sensors).
This dynamic model is a system of seven equations and six unknowns: four torques and two components for the stance leg reaction force.
A resident in the hostel attends the nurse's surgery for dressing of burns to his legs.
In fact, a human-like motion requires that right arm moves forward while right leg moves backward and similarly for the other leg and arm.
The autopsy established the existence of marks produced by blows from a hard instrument on his face, legs and the soles of his feet.
We designed the lower extremities of the ski robot as two artificial legs in the form of a parallelogram.
Is effeminacy a limp wrist, a set of facial mannerisms, a way of crossing one's legs, a certain posture?
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Collocations withleg

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These are words often used in combination with leg.

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anchor leg
Typically, the anchorleg of a relay is given to the fastest or most experienced competitor on a team.
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