And with mass nouns like furniture or silverware, the problem appears even more clearly, at the macroscopic level: a table is furniture, a leg of the table is part of the table, but the leg isn't furniture.
It may start with an individual's desire to sleep better or reduce stress, but results are similar to what happens when you pull on one leg of the table, said Roth. "The whole table moves".
To stabilize the legs of tables and chairs, Nippon Kako-Kizai came up with a self-devoped solution, originally used in its packaging materials: It bundled layers of the paper to form tubes.
Use your furniture to hide stray cords, by taping your cords to the backs and legs of tables, dressers, or desks.
If you looked under the leg of a table, chances are someone would be using it to level it out.
He leaned back in his wooden chair and propped a foot against the leg of the table.
He picked up his bag and started toward the door, then stopped suddenly; the strings on his pants had caught on the leg of a table.
The second time he was supposed to be executed, for blowing up a munitions factory, La Rouchefoucauld killed a guard with the leg of a table and walked out of prison.
Their own work was still crude and trifling, they had scarcely the skill with which to fashion the leg of a table, and they hoped that a visit to the Master would instruct and inspire them.
Then, the leg of a table isn't a furniture-part of the furniture, so the problem of minimal parts is avoided.
"('Chicago Justice') is literally the fourth leg of the table," Wolf said.
