leg vs up

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. 

up

verb
  • To physically raise or lift. 

  • To upload. 

  • To increase the level or amount of. 

  • To promote. 

  • To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and. 

adv
  • Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity. 

  • Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use. 

  • Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change. 

  • To or from one's possession or consideration. 

  • To or at a physically higher or more elevated position. 

  • Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely. 

  • To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with. 

  • Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero. 

  • In a positive vertical direction. 

  • North. 

  • Against the wind or current. 

  • To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc. 

  • Without additional ice. 

  • Relatively close to the batsman. 

prep
  • From south to north of. 

  • At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location). 

  • From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway). 

  • Further along (in any direction). 

  • Of a man: having sex with. 

  • Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached. 

  • Toward the top of. 

adj
  • Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair. 

  • Traveling towards a major terminus. 

  • At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge). 

  • Aloft. 

  • Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc. 

  • Functional; working. 

  • Raised; lifted. 

  • Above the horizon, in the sky. 

  • well-known; renowned 

  • Awake and out of bed. 

  • Willing; ready. 

  • Indicating a larger or higher quantity. 

  • Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up). 

  • Finished, to an end 

  • On or at a physically higher level. 

  • Chilled and served without ice. 

  • Erect. 

  • Ahead; leading; winning. 

  • Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with. 

  • Facing upwards. 

  • Well-informed; current. 

  • In a good mood. 

  • Built, constructed. 

  • Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling. 

  • Available to view or use; made public; posted. 

  • Riding the horse; mounted. 

  • Standing; upright. 

  • Next in a sequence. 

noun
  • The direction opposed to the pull of gravity. 

  • An up quark. 

  • An upstairs room of a two story house. 

  • A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well. 

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