leg vs rise

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. 

rise

noun
  • The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts. 

  • An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope. 

  • A small hill; used chiefly in place names. 

  • A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence. 

  • An increase in a quantity, price, etc. 

  • The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater. 

  • The height of an arch or a step. 

verb
  • To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus. 

  • To leave one's bed; to get up. 

  • To attain a higher status. 

  • To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn. 

  • To have its source (in a particular place). 

  • Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase. 

  • To develop. 

  • To become erect; to assume an upright position. 

  • To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse. 

  • To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch. 

  • To be resurrected. 

  • To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light. 

  • To slope upward. 

  • To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight. 

  • To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. 

  • To go up; to ascend; to climb. 

  • To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation. 

  • To come; to offer itself. 

  • To move upwards. 

  • To grow upward; to attain a certain height. 

  • To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. 

  • To cause to go up or ascend. 

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