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say it: leg
leg is a noun meaning "a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle". It is pronounced /ˈlɛɡ/ — leg. It carries 9 recorded senses.
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
one of the supports for a piece of furniture
a part of a forked or branching shape
“he broke off one of the branches”
the limb of an animal used for food
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
a section or portion of a journey or course
“then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leg come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.