leg
part of speech
noun (leg, legs)
meaning for a pupil
1) A leg is a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on. tree →
2) Tables, chairs and stools also have legs that hold them up. tree →
3) A leg of a trip or a race is one part of it. tree →
4) The leg of trousers is the part that covers your leg. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a counted part: each animal or object has a fixed number of legs (a hen has 2 legs, a dog has 4 legs, an insect has 6 legs, a spider has 8 legs, a stool has 3 legs); legs puzzles; one part of a trip or relay race. In science: insects have 6 legs, spiders 8; leg bones and muscles. Phrases: «break a leg» (good luck to an actor), «pull someone's leg» (joke with them), «on its last legs» (almost broken).
examples
- And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar. (Torah LEV.9.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung, (Torah LEV.4.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. (Torah EXO.12.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay. (Writings DAN.2.33, JPS 1917) tree →
- The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. (Writings PRO.26.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. (Prophets 1SA.17.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- A dog has 4 legs. How many legs do 5 dogs have? tree →
- There are chickens and cows with 30 legs in all. tree →
- Each stool has 3 legs. tree →
- The first leg of the trip is 20 km. tree →
- She hurt her leg playing netball. tree →
- An insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8 legs. tree →
- He ran the last leg of the relay. tree →
- Are you pulling my leg? tree →
- Take care, and remember your legs." tree →
note
Countable: «a leg», «legs». «Break a leg!» is a kind wish, not a bad one. Maths: hides a multiplication: number of animals × legs each. Trap: the problem often does not say how many legs each animal has; you must know it (bird 2, insect 6, spider 8).
In the corpora
- And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
- And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
- He delighteth not in the strength of the horse; He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.
- The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- its legs of iron, its feet part of iron and part of clay.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «leg» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.