leg vs weight

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. 

weight

verb
  • To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc. 

  • To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight. 

  • To load, burden or oppress someone. 

  • To bias something; to slant. 

  • To assign weights to individual statistics. 

  • To handicap a horse with a specified weight. 

  • To add weight to something; to make something heavier. 

noun
  • viscosity rating. 

  • An object used to make something heavier. 

  • Pressure; burden. 

  • Importance or influence. 

  • An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training. 

  • The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight. 

  • The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. 

  • One pound of drugs, especially cannabis. 

  • The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by). 

  • The smallest cardinality of a base. 

  • A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation. 

  • Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.). 

  • The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes. 

  • Synonym of mass (in general circumstances) 

  • The thickness and opacity of paint. 

  • Shipments of (often illegal) drugs. 

  • Weight class 

  • Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances) 

  • A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object. 

  • The illusion of mass. 

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