Synonyms of the word

leg

• n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
• n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
• n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
• n. A stage of a journey, race etc.
• n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
• n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
• n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
• n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
• n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
• n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
• n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
• n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes…
• n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
• n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
• n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
• n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
• n. (US, slang, military) A soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
• v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
• v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
• v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

branch

• n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
• n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
• n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US…
• n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
• n. A location of an organization with several locations.
• n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant…
• n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia…
• n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
• n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a…
• n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
• n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build…
• n. (rail transport) A branch line.
• v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
• v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
• v. (intransitive) To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a…

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

distance

• n. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)…
• n. Length or interval of time.
• n. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
• n. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
• n. Remoteness in succession or relation.
• n. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
• n. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
• v. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.

length

• n. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
• n. duration.
• n. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
• n. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
• n. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
• n. (figuratively) Total extent.
• n. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
• v. (obsolete) To lengthen.

limb

• n. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
• n. A branch of a tree.
• n. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
• n. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
• n. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
• v. To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
• v. To supply with limbs.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
• n. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
• n. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

peg

• n. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
• n. Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the…
• n. A protrusion used to hang things on.
• n. (figuratively) A support; a reason; a pretext.
• n. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
• n. (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency…
• n. (Britain) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
• n. A place formally allotted for fishing.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
• n. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
• n. A step; a degree.
• n. Short for clothes peg.
• v. To fasten using a peg.
• v. To affix or pin.
• v. To fix a value or price.
• v. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
• v. To throw.
• v. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers…
• v. (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
• v. (slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on a scale or gauge.
• v. (slang, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating one's male partner with…

prosthesis

• n. (medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
• n. (linguistics, prosody) prothesis.

ramification

• n. (botany, anatomy) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence…
• n. An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a…
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

subfigure

• n. (geometry) A figure (geometric form) that is part of another.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

traveling

• v. present participle of travel.
• n. (basketball) A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it.
• n. The action of the verb travel.
• adj. That travels (with one).

travelling

• v. present participle of travel.
• n. action of the verb to travel.
• adj. that travels (with one).