leg - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a section or portion of a journey or course

Synonyms

• leg
• stage

More generic

• travel
• traveling
• travelling

More specific

• fare-stage

Related

• journey
• journeying

Noun

(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• distance
• length

Noun

a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• cloth covering

More specific

• pant leg
• trouser leg

Related

• cuff
• foot
• knee
• turnup

Related

• pair of trousers
• pant
• trousers

Noun

one of the supports for a piece of furniture

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• support

Related

• camp bed
• chair
• cot
• four-poster
• grand
• grand piano
• hospital bed
• spinning wheel
• table
• tripod

Noun

a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

Synonyms

• leg
• peg
• pegleg
• wooden leg

More generic

• prosthesis
• prosthetic device

Noun

a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• limb

More specific

• bandy leg
• bandyleg
• bow leg
• bowleg
• genu varum
• peg
• pin
• shank's mare
• shank's pony
• shanks' mare
• shanks' pony
• spindlelegs
• spindleshanks
• stick
• tibia vara

Related

• ankle
• ankle joint
• articulatio genus
• articulatio talocruralis
• calf bone
• crus
• fibula
• fibular vein
• foot
• genu
• genu valgum
• human foot
• human knee
• knee
• knee joint
• knock-knee
• leg bone
• mortise joint
• musculus tibialis
• nervus ischiadicus
• nervus saphenus
• peroneal vein
• pes
• saphenous nerve
• saphenous vein
• sciatic nerve
• shank
• shin
• shin bone
• shinbone
• thigh
• tibia
• tibia valga
• tibial vein
• tibialis
• tibialis muscle
• vena peroneus
• vena saphena
• vena tibialis

Related

• body
• organic structure

Noun

a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• limb

More specific

• animal leg
• prehensor

Related

• pedal extremity
• vertebrate foot

Noun

the limb of an animal used for food

Synonyms

• leg

More generic

• cut
• cut of meat

More specific

• gigot
• ham hock
• leg of lamb

Noun

a part of a forked or branching shape

Synonyms

• branch
• leg
• ramification

More generic

• subfigure

More specific

• bifurcation
• brachium
• crotch
• fork

Related

• forking
• furcation

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