different between leg vs shoot

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)

1. A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.

2. In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

3. (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
4. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

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

6. (figuratively) Something that supports.

7. A stage of a journey, race etc.

8. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
9. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
10. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
11. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
12. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
13. (usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.

14. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
15. 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.
16. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
17. (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

18. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
19. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
20. (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
21. (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
22. (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.

23. (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.

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)

1. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
2. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
3. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
4. 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)

1. Abbreviation of legislature.

2. Abbreviation of legend.

Adjective

leg (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. play, game
2. (zoology) spawning (fish)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

leg

1. imperative of lege

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

leg

1. neck; throat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?x/
• Rhymes: -?x

Verb

leg

1. first-person singular present indicative of leggen
2. imperative of leggen

Anagrams

• gel

German

Alternative forms

• lege

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?k/

Verb

leg

1. (colloquial) first-person singular present of legen
2. singular imperative of legen
3. (colloquial) first-person singular subjunctive I of legen
4. (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)

1. (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)

1. (darts) leg (single game played in darts)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

leg n (genitive singular legs, nominative plural leg)

1. uterus

Declension

Derived terms

• leggöng
• legháls
• leghálssýking
• legnám

Lombard

Etymology 1

From legge.

Noun

leg

1. law

Etymology 2

From leggere.

Verb

leg

1. 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)

1. leg, limb
2. shank, shin
3. leg (cut of meat)
4. leg armour
5. 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

1. imperative of lege

Old Norse

Noun

leg n

1. 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

1. genitive plural of lega

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [le?]

Verb

leg

1. first-person singular present indicative of lega
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of lega

Swedish

Adjective

leg

1. certified, authorized; indicating an authorized medical doctor, not a quack. Abbreviation of legitimerad.

Noun

leg n

1. (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

1. lower leg, foot

Synonyms

• ngar (western dialect)

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse leg.

Noun

leg n (definite leje, dative lejen)

1. afterbirth from calving

Synonyms

• ättföring f
• li n

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: chute

Etymology 1

From Middle English shoten, from Old English sc?otan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian ??????? (kidát?), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian ???? (?ost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

Verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

1. To launch a projectile.
   1. (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).

   2. (transitive) To fire (a projectile).

      Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
   3. (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).

   4. (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.

   5. (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
   6. (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
      • 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)

        Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.

   7. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.

   8. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.

   9. (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.

   10. (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.

   11. (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
   12. (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.

   13. (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
   1. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.

      • There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.

      • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII

        It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
   2. To go over or pass quickly through.

      • She [...] shoots the Stygian sound.

      • 2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager (page 40)

        It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.

   3. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
   4. (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.

      • Thy words shoot through my heart.

   5. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

      • These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.

   6. (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
      • 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.

        The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows.

   7. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
      • c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb

        an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
   8. (informal, transitive) To send to someone.

3. (sports) To act or achieve.
   1. (wrestling) To lunge.
   2. (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
   3. To make the stated score.

4. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
6. To develop, move forward.
   1. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
      • 1709, John Dryden, Georgics

        But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.

   2. To grow; to advance.

      • Well shot in years he seemed.

      • 1728, James Thomson, "Spring"

        Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.

   3. (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
   4. (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
   1. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.

      • They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.

      • Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.

7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49

     There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.

8. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
   • 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works

     two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel

9. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan

     The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.

10. (card games) To shoot the moon.
11. (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shoot.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: xut
• ? Greek: ???? (sout)
• ? Persian: ???? (šut)
• ? Portuguese: chuto, chute
• ? Romanian: ?ut
• ? Vietnamese: sút

Translations

Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

   • Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.

2. A photography session.
3. A hunt or shooting competition.
4. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion

     One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.

6. A rush of water; a rapid.
7. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
8. A shoat; a young pig.
9. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
   • 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

     In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
    • 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)

      That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.

11. (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.

Derived terms

• (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot

Descendants

• Catalan: xut
• Portuguese: chuto

Translations

Etymology 2

Minced oath for shit.

Interjection

shoot

1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain

   Didn't you have a concert tonight?

   Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...

Synonyms

• (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar

Translations

Anagrams

• Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh