thigh

«thigh» in Mova's school dictionary: the top part of your leg, between your hip and your knee — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a thigh, thighs)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your thigh is the top part of your leg, between your hip and your knee. tree →

2) A thigh is also this part of a chicken or other animal, used as food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons the thigh bone (femur) is the longest and strongest bone in the body; in PE thigh muscles help you run and jump. Phrases: «thigh bone», «chicken thighs», «thigh-high».

examples

• The thigh bone is the longest bone in your body. tree →
• I pulled a muscle in my thigh. tree →
• We had chicken thighs for dinner. tree →
• The water came up to my thighs. tree →
• She wore thigh-high boots. tree →
• Stretch your thighs before running. tree →
• The football hit him on the thigh. tree →
• As they approached, the bear stood erect with a hand on his thigh. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced THIGH (th as in «thin», rhymes with «high»); the gh is silent. The femur is the thigh bone.

In the corpora

• Landing on soft, padded parts like your bottom, thigh and side hurts less than landing on bones.
• People with a serious sting allergy may carry an adrenaline pen, such as an EpiPen, given into the outer thigh.
• The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone (femur).
• And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
• (32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thigh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.