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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#m1)

2) A thigh is also this part of a chicken or other animal, used as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x1)
- I pulled a muscle in my thigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x2)
- We had chicken thighs for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x3)
- The water came up to my thighs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x4)
- She wore thigh-high boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x5)
- Stretch your thighs before running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x6)
- The football hit him on the thigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x7)
- As they approached, the bear stood erect with a hand on his thigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thigh/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/17/)
- [People with a serious sting allergy may carry an adrenaline pen, such as an EpiPen, given into the outer thigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/15/)
- [The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone (femur).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/17/)
- [And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.629/)
- [(32-32) And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1031/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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