A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
verb
(intransitive) To become a gel.
(intransitive) To develop a rapport.
(intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
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noun
(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
(US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
(anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
(archaic) A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.
(cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
(electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
(figurative) Something that supports.
(finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
(geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
(journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
(telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
(usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
Alternative spelling of leg.
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.
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.
verb
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
