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# leg

«leg» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on** — 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 (leg, legs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A leg is a part of the body that people and animals stand and walk on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m1)

2) Tables, chairs and stools also have legs that hold them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m2)

3) A leg of a trip or a race is one part of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m3)

4) The leg of trousers is the part that covers your leg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#m4)

### 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

- A dog has 4 legs. How many legs do 5 dogs have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x1)
- There are chickens and cows with 30 legs in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x2)
- Each stool has 3 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x3)
- The first leg of the trip is 20 km. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x4)
- She hurt her leg playing netball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x5)
- An insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x6)
- He ran the last leg of the relay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x7)
- Are you pulling my leg? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x8)
- Take care, and remember your legs." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/#x9)

### 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

- [You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/13/)
- ["Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/12/)
- [Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/15/)
- [A dragonfly has 6 legs and 4 wings, like many insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/)
- [Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leg» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leg/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.