one-legged

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See also: one legged

English

Etymology

From one +‎ legged.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/
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Adjective

one-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having only one leg.
    Synonyms: monoped, monopedal, uniped, unipedal
  2. Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
    • 2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40:
      […] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.
    • 2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 100:
      […] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.

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Noun

one-legged (plural one-leggeds)

  1. A plant, especially a tree.
    • 2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:
      In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...
    • 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
      We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
    • 2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256:
      The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.
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