form vs leg

form

verb
  • To take shape. 

  • To provide (a hare) with a form. 

  • To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). 

  • To mould or model by instruction or discipline. 

  • To constitute, to compose, to make up. 

  • To put together or bring into being; assemble. 

  • To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. 

  • To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. 

  • To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. 

noun
  • A specific way of performing a movement. 

  • A quantic. 

  • A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). 

  • Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. 

  • Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. 

  • A specimen document to be copied or imitated. 

  • A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. 

  • A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. 

  • Level of performance. 

  • Regularity, beauty, or elegance. 

  • The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 

  • A window or dialogue box. 

  • Characteristics not involving atomic components. 

  • A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. 

  • Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. 

  • The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 

  • A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). 

  • The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists. 

  • An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. 

  • The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. 

  • The den or home of a hare. 

  • An infraspecific rank. 

leg

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

  • 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. 

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. 

How often have the words form and leg occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )