The difference between Legion and Wing

When used as nouns, legion means the major unit or division of the roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops, whereas wing means an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

When used as verbs, legion means to form into legions, whereas wing means to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

Legion is also adjective with the meaning: numerous.

check bellow for the other definitions of Legion and Wing

  1. Legion as an adjective:

    Numerous; vast; very great in number

    Examples:

    "Russia’s labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state’s needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion."

    "synonyms: multitudinous numerous"

  1. Legion as a noun (military, Ancient Rome):

    The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

  2. Legion as a noun (military, obsolete):

    a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery

  3. Legion as a noun (military):

    A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.

  4. Legion as a noun (often '''Legion''' or '''the Legion'''):

    A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the .

  5. Legion as a noun:

    A large number of people; a multitude.

  6. Legion as a noun (often plural):

    A great number.

  7. Legion as a noun (dated, taxonomy):

    A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

  1. Legion as a verb (transitive):

    To form into legions.

  1. Wing as a noun:

    An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish

  2. Wing as a noun (slang):

    Human arm.

  3. Wing as a noun (aviation):

    Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.

  4. Wing as a noun:

    One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

  5. Wing as a noun:

    One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

  6. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

  7. Wing as a noun (botany):

    Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

  8. Wing as a noun:

    A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

  9. Wing as a noun:

    Passage by flying; flight.

    Examples:

    "to take wing"

  10. Wing as a noun:

    Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

  11. Wing as a noun:

    A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

    Examples:

    "the west wing of the hospital"

    "the wings of a corkscrew"

  12. Wing as a noun:

    Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

  13. Wing as a noun:

    An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

  14. Wing as a noun:

    A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.

  15. Wing as a noun:

    A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

  16. Wing as a noun (British):

    An organizational grouping in a military aviation service: A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station. A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

  17. Wing as a noun (British):

    A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

  18. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

  19. Wing as a noun (nautical):

    That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Totten"

  20. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A position in several field games on either side of the field.

  21. Wing as a noun (sports):

    A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

  22. Wing as a noun (typography, informal, rare):

    A .

  23. Wing as a noun (theater):

    One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.

  24. Wing as a noun (in the plural):

    The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.

  25. Wing as a noun:

    A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.

  26. Wing as a noun:

    On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype

    Examples:

    "Tom's a 4 on the Enneagram, with a 3 wing."

  1. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

  2. Wing as a verb (intransitive):

    To fly.

  3. Wing as a verb (transitive, of a building):

    To add a wing (extra part) to.

  4. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

  5. Wing as a verb (transitive):

    To throw.

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