leg vs length

leg and length both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
leg	Yes	No	No	No
length	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, length is a hypernym of leg; that is, length is a word with a broader meaning than leg:

leg: (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
length: size of the gap between two places

Other hypernyms of leg include distance.

leg (noun)	length (noun)
a section or portion of a journey or course	a section of something that is long and narrow
(nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack	the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg	continuance in time
one of the supports for a piece of furniture	the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg	size of the gap between two places
a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
the limb of an animal used for food
a part of a forked or branching shape

Difference between leg and length

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