cutoff vs leg

cutoff

noun
  • Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers. 

  • A cessation in a flow or activity. 

  • A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut. 

  • The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited. 

  • A device that stops the flow of a current. 

  • A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off). 

  • The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop. 

  • A horizontal line separating sections of the page. 

  • A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization. 

adj
  • Constituting a limit or ending. 

  • Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar. 

leg

noun
  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. 

  • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. 

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

  • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. 

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. 

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

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