different between leg vs peroneal
leg
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(?)lak-, *l?k- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”).
Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian ???? (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term s?anca (Modern English shank).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /l??/
- (some US dialects) IPA(key): /le??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
leg (plural legs)
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
- (figuratively) Something that supports.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
- 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.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- Synonym: on; Antonym: off
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:
- Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 74:
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- 2015, Homer L. Hall, ?Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)
- A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch.
- 2015, Homer L. Hall, ?Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy (page 266)
Alternative forms
- legge (obsolete)
Synonyms
- (side of a right triangle): cathetus
Derived terms
Translations
See leg/translations § Noun.
See also
Verb
leg (third-person singular simple present legs, present participle legging, simple past and past participle legged)
- To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
- To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
- To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
- To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
Derived terms
- leg it
References
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?d?/
- Homophone: ledge
Noun
leg (plural not attested)
- Abbreviation of legislature.
- Abbreviation of legend.
Adjective
leg (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of legislative.
Anagrams
- ELG, ElG, gel
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- legu
Etymology
From Latin lig?. Compare Romanian lega, leg.
Verb
leg (second-person singular present indicative ledz, third-person singular present indicative leadzi or leadze, second-person plural present indicative ligats, past participle ligatã)
- I tie, bind.
Related terms
- ligari / ligare
- ligat
- ligãturã
- ligãmintu
- dizleg
See also
- adun
- mpriunedz
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?j?]
- Homophone: lej
- Rhymes: -aj
Etymology 1
From Old Norse leikr, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz.
Noun
leg c (singular definite legen, plural indefinite lege)
- play, game
- (zoology) spawning (fish)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
leg
- imperative of lege
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
leg
- neck; throat
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?x/
- Rhymes: -?x
Verb
leg
- first-person singular present indicative of leggen
- imperative of leggen
Anagrams
- gel
German
Alternative forms
- lege
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le?k/
Verb
leg
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of legen
- singular imperative of legen
- (colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen
- (colloquial) third-person singular subjunctive I of legen
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l??]
- Hyphenation: leg
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Back-formation from leg- (prefix forming superlative adjectives).
Noun
leg (plural legek)
- (chiefly in the plural, informal) best, most (record-setting achievement, property or amount)
Declension
Etymology 2
From English leg (“single game or match played in a tournament”).
Noun
leg (plural legek)
- (darts) leg (single game played in darts)
Declension
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
leg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg)
- uterus
Declension
Derived terms
- leggöng
- legháls
- leghálssýking
- legnám
Lombard
Etymology 1
From legge.
Noun
leg
- law
Etymology 2
From leggere.
Verb
leg
- to read
Middle English
Alternative forms
- legge, leggue, leige, lige
Etymology
From Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??/
Noun
leg (plural legges)
- leg, limb
- shank, shin
- leg (cut of meat)
- leg armour
- The stem of a wine glass
Descendants
- English: leg
- Scots: leg
References
- “leg, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-05.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
leg
- imperative of lege
Old Norse
Noun
leg n
- burial place
Declension
Derived terms
- legkaup n (“burial fee”)
- legstaðr m (“burial place”)
- legsteinn m (“tombstone”)
References
- leg in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?k/
- Homophone: lek
Noun
leg
- genitive plural of lega
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [le?]
Verb
leg
- first-person singular present indicative of lega
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lega
Swedish
Adjective
leg
- certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.
Noun
leg n
- (slang) ID card showing the owner's age; abbreviation of legitimation.
Declension
See also
- lägg
Anagrams
- elg
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English leg.
Noun
leg
- lower leg, foot
Synonyms
- ngar (western dialect)
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse leg.
Noun
leg n (definite leje, dative lejen)
- afterbirth from calving
Synonyms
- ättföring f
- li n
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peroneal
English
Etymology
From perona or peroneus +? -al.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??.???ni?.?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??.o??ni?.?l/, /p???o?.ni.?l/ (to differentiate from perineal, see below)
- Rhymes: -i??l
Adjective
peroneal (comparative more peroneal, superlative most peroneal)
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot). [from 19th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 526:
- Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 526:
Usage notes
Do not confuse peroneal ("of the outside of the lower leg") with perineal ("of the skin between the genitals and anus"); the words sound almost alike or even entirely alike, depending on the variable quality of a single reduced vowel.
Derived terms
- peroneal artery
- peroneal nerve
- peroneal vein
Synonyms
- fibular
Anagrams
- Loperena
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