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Foot

noun

(pl. feet)

1.

The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint. Synonyms: human foot, pes. "Armored from head to foot"

2.

A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard. Synonym: ft.

3.

The lower part of anything. "The foot of the page" , "The foot of the list" , "The foot of the mountain"

4.

The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings. Synonym: animal foot.

5.

Lowest support of a structure. Synonyms: base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure. "He stood at the foot of the tower"

6.

Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates. Synonym: invertebrate foot.

7.

Travel by walking. "The swiftest of foot"

8.

A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger.

9.

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot. Synonym: infantry.

10.

(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm. Synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit.

11.

A support resembling a pedal extremity.

verb

(past & past part. footed; pres. part. footing)

1.

Pay for something. Synonym: pick. "Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" , "Foot the bill"

2.

Walk. Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it.

3.

Add a column of numbers. Synonym: foot up.

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"Foot" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hardening of the skin by daily sponge baths with cold salt water, while the child stands or sits in warm water, is effective as a preventive of colds, as is also an out-of-door life with proper attention to clothing and foot gear. ...

— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various

... "Pongo" Simpson. "Strike me pink!" he spluttered, as he scrambled up the steep bank out of the water. "An' I gone an' forgot me soap. The first bath as I've 'ad for six weeks, too." And he blundered into my dug-out, a terrible object covered in slimy mud from head to foot, and when he breathed little showers of mud ...

— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett

... back with three, and Lloyd again with four, till each knew the whole poem by heart. I remember an incident that occurred at the swimming hole—an incident tragically significant of the life-struggle between them. The boys had a game of diving to the bottom of a ten-foot pool and holding on by submerged roots to see who could stay under the longest. Paul and Lloyd allowed themselves to be bantered into making the descent together. When I saw their faces, set and determined, disappear in the water as they ...

— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... are coming! See, Ma, what a nice man he is," said Bab, hopping about on one foot as she watched ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 • Various

... noticed, standing at the foot of one of the Towers a little distance off. It was there, then, that Thomas Cromwell, wool-carder, waited for death, hearing, perhaps, from his window the murmur of the crowd beyond the moat, and the blows of mallet on wood as ...

— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson

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