What's the difference between cant and leg?

Cant


Definition:

  • (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
  • (n.) An outer or external angle.
  • (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
  • (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
  • (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
  • (n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
  • (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
  • (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
  • (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
  • (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
  • (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
  • (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
  • (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
  • (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
  • (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
  • (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
  • (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
  • (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
  • (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
  • (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vince, too, prefers plain speaking to corporate cant – and is even willing to suggest that Tory householders should go elsewhere to buy their energy if they object to his stance.
  • (2) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
  • (3) The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes of the cant of occlusal plane during and after orthodontic treatment.
  • (4) We have an obligation that we cant ignore something like this.” However, Katz later appeared to accept Spicer’s apology.
  • (5) I care, but I cant do enough so I’ll forget I care.
  • (6) Speaking a week after his youngest brother, Jaffar, 17 , was killed storming a Syrian government checkpoint, Deghayes said: “I cant afford to leave jihad and the journey to jannah [paradise].” Jaffar is the youngest known Briton to have died during the gruesome three-year conflict.
  • (7) The present study evaluated the ability of clofibrate to sensitize in situ a mouse carcinoma (CaNT) to radiation.
  • (8) October 1, 2013 Mark Knoller (@markknoller) The @ONDCP , the WH Office Office of Drug Policy says "we're sorry" but it cant respond to tweets and replies due to the shutdown.
  • (9) When I see footage of her fencing I cant believe what I see,” says Pinkhasov, a Russian immigrant who fenced himself both in the Soviet Union and in the US.
  • (10) Nicotinamide increased the radiation sensitivity of CaNT tumours under all three different oxygen concentrations tested (21, 95 and 100% oxygen).
  • (11) 1.43pm BST Your comments Paddyde 26 June 2014 12:24pm So Syngenta applies to have UK government ecotox experts review the data and make a judgment and the general opinion in the comments section is: " We cant let the scientists review the data and come to an informed opinion because it might not agree with ours.
  • (12) There are always compromises, and that nagging voice says ‘I cant do enough, so I may as well not try.’ Reading Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s response to Vivienne Westwood in the Guardian, ‘ Living ethically isn’t cheap, Vivienne ’, made my inner voice rear its ugly head again – she finishes with the words ‘people don’t seem to care … or don’t have the energy to care.
  • (13) The levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in the transplantable CaNT murine tumor grown in CBA mice at various times following 5, 10, and 15 Gy X rays (100 kVp) were increased within 45 min.
  • (14) Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' Read more While the novelist blamed himself for the incident, he admitted he also blamed Winfrey.
  • (15) What you get instead is the kind of cant served up by David Cameron at last year’s Conservative conference: “It’s not the government that creates jobs.
  • (16) #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir talking about the courage he heard in his sons voice in the dispatch tape when he called to report he'd been kidnapped #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir Shaer: What courage for someone who was not yet even 17 #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Ofir: I never pictured you'd become a hero of #Israel while still just a teen #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Gil-ad Shaers mother: I sit in your room and cant accept that our worst nightmare came true #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 2.08pm BST Israel claims its aerial bombardment of Gaza in the wake of the discovery of the bodies of the abducted teenagers was aimed at prevent further kidnappings, my colleague Matthew Weaver writes.
  • (17) He talked about its special, extra-white glass and how the canted surfaces would reflect the sky and produce "a nice light presence".
  • (18) Yen Manager: for choice we want lower libors...let the [Money Market] guys know pls Yen Trader 2: sure i am setting today as [Yen Trader 1] and cash guy off [Primary Submitter] Yen Manager: great set it nice and low Yen Trader 2: 1.02 in 6m or lower Yen Manager: yeh lower Yen Trader 2: 1.01 then cant really go much lower than that Yen Manager: ok Yen Trader 2: u care for 1m and 3m too[?]
  • (19) Another wrote: "I am backing Gatwick for a second runway but if u cant handle passenger influx with one runway, how will u handle 2??"
  • (20) Changes in the levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6P-DH) activity, versus tumour volume were measured in vivo under normoxic conditions in the CaNT tumours grown in CBA mice.

Leg


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To run.
  • (v. t.) To use as a leg, with it as object
  • (v. t.) To bow.
  • (n.) A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.
  • (n.) That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.
  • (n.) The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.
  • (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing.
  • (n.) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
  • (n.) The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or between tacks.
  • (n.) An extension of the 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.
  • (n.) The case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
  • (n.) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
  • (2) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (5) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
  • (6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
  • (7) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
  • (8) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
  • (10) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
  • (11) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
  • (12) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
  • (13) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.
  • (14) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (15) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
  • (16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (17) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (18) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
  • (19) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
  • (20) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.

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