leg vs stress

leg

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

  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

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

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

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. 

stress

verb
  • To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain. 

  • To emphasise (words in speaking). 

  • To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion. 

  • To emphasise (a syllable of a word). 

  • To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal). 

  • To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated. 

noun
  • Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written). 

  • A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence. 

  • distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained. 

  • Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions. 

  • Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. 

  • A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism. 

  • The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ. 

  • Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body. 

  • The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch. 

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