leg vs squat

leg

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

squat

noun
  • A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. 

  • A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising (back squat), especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders (barbell back squat). 

  • A small vein of ore. 

  • A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter. 

  • A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet. 

  • Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee. 

  • A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. 

  • The angel shark (genus Squatina). 

  • A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form. 

verb
  • To sit close to the ground; to stoop, or lie close to the ground, for example to escape observation. 

  • To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet. 

  • To cybersquat. 

  • To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee. 

  • To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back. 

  • To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner. 

adj
  • Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching. 

  • Relatively short or low, and thick or broad. 

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