one-legged
/ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
noun
A plant, especially a tree.
Example Sentences
- "[…] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion."
- "[…] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording."
- "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, ..."
- "We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred."
- "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."
Etymology
From one + legged.