Limb vs. Leg

Limbnoun

A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

Limbnoun

A branch of a tree.

Limbnoun

(archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

Limbnoun

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limbnoun

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

Limbnoun

(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

Limbnoun

(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

Limbnoun

(botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

Limbverb

(transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

Limbverb

(transitive) To supply with limbs.

Limbnoun

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

Limbnoun

An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

Limbnoun

A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

Limbnoun

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limbnoun

A border or edge, in certain special uses.

Limbverb

To supply with limbs.

Limbverb

To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Limbnoun

one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

Limbnoun

any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

Limbnoun

(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

Limbnoun

either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip;

Limbnoun

the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles;

Limbnoun

any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

Legnoun

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.

Legnoun

(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

Legnoun

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

Legnoun

A stage of a journey, race etc.

Legnoun

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

Legnoun

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

Legnoun

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

Legnoun

(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

Legnoun

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

Legnoun

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

Legnoun

(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist

Legnoun

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

Legnoun

An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.

Legnoun

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

Legnoun

(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Legnoun

(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.

Legnoun

(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

Legnoun

(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.

Legnoun

An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.

Legverb

To remove the legs from an animal carcass.

Legverb

To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

Legverb

To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.

Legadjective

abbreviation of legislative

Legnoun

A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.

Legnoun

That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.

Legnoun

The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

Legnoun

A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.

Legnoun

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

Legnoun

The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.

Legnoun

An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; - called also water leg.

Legnoun

The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

Legnoun

A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Legnoun

Either side of a triangle distinguished from the base or, in a right triangle, from the hypotenuse; also, an indefinitely extending branch of a curve, as of a hyperbola.

Legnoun

A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.

Legnoun

A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

Legverb

To use as a leg, with it as object

Legnoun

a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle

Legnoun

a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

Legnoun

one of the supports for a piece of furniture

Legnoun

a part of a forked or branching shape;

Legnoun

the limb of an animal used for food

Legnoun

a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Legnoun

cloth covering consisting of the part of a garment that covers the leg

Legnoun

(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

Legnoun

a section or portion of a journey or course;

Legnoun

each of the limbs on which a person or animal walks and stands

Legnoun

a leg of an animal or bird as food

Legnoun

a part of a garment covering a leg or part of a leg

Legnoun

(with reference to a ball, especially in golf) sufficient momentum to reach the desired point.

Legnoun

(with reference to a product or idea) sustained popularity or success

Legnoun

each of the supports of a chair, table, or other structure

Legnoun

a section or stage of a journey or process

Legnoun

a run made on a single tack

Legnoun

(in soccer and other sports) each of two games constituting a round of a competition

Legnoun

a section of a relay or other race done in stages

Legnoun

a single game in a darts match

Legnoun

a branch of a forked object.

Legnoun

the half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) away from which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball

Legnoun

a deferential gesture made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.

Legverb

travel by foot; walk

Legverb

run away

Legverb

propel (a boat) through a tunnel on a canal by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides

Leg

A leg is a weight-bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as .