foot

Definition of foot

Nouns

the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

"armored from head to foot"

Synonyms:: human foot, pes

Types:: flatfoot, pes planus, splayfoot
a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out

Type of:: pedal extremity, vertebrate foot
the extremity of the limb in vertebrates

a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard

Synonyms:: ft

Type of:: linear measure, linear unit
a unit of measurement of length

the lower part of anything

"curled up on the foot of the bed"

"the foot of the page"

"the foot of the list"

"the foot of the mountain"

Antonyms:: head
the top of something

Type of:: bottom
the lowest part of anything

the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

Synonyms:: animal foot

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; fossorial foot
foot adapted for digging as in moles; hoof
the foot of an ungulate mammal; cloven foot, cloven hoof
a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine); horse's foot
the hoof of a horse; bird's foot
the foot of a bird; claw
a bird's foot; zygodactyl foot
a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward; heterodactyl foot
a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward; webbed foot
a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes; lobate foot
a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides; webfoot
a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin; trotter
foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food; forefoot
a front foot of a quadruped; hindfoot
a rear foot of a quadruped; paw
a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped; forepaw
front paw; analogous to the human hand

Type of:: pedal extremity, vertebrate foot
the extremity of the limb in vertebrates

lowest support of a structure

"he stood at the foot of the tower"

Synonyms:: base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; bed
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track; railroad bed
a bed on which railroad track is laid; roadbed
a bed supporting a road; raft foundation
a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete

Type of:: support
supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

Synonyms:: invertebrate foot

Types:: tube foot
tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration

Type of:: organ
a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

travel by walking

"he followed on foot"

"the swiftest of foot"

Type of:: walk
the act of walking somewhere

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

Type of:: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

Synonyms:: infantry

Types:: paratroops
infantry trained and equipped to parachute

Type of:: army unit
a military unit that is part of an army

(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Synonyms:: metrical foot, metrical unit

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; dactyl
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables; iamb, iambus
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables; anapaest, anapest
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables; amphibrach
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember'); trochee
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables; spondee
a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables; dibrach, pyrrhic
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

Type of:: beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

a support resembling a pedal extremity

"one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

Type of:: support
any device that bears the weight of another thing

Verbs

pay for something

"foot the bill"

Synonyms:: pick

Type of:: pay
give money, usually in exchange for goods or services

walk

Synonyms:: hoof, hoof it, leg it

Type of:: walk
use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

add a column of numbers

Synonyms:: foot up

Type of:: add, add together
make an addition by combining numbers

Vocabulary Lists for foot

newspeak
prole
Big Brother
labour camp
doublethink

gateleg table
labour camp
Eurasia
prole
newspeak

seamanly
squire
rum
stockade
clove hitch

Hale
German ivy
matt
sleigh
flats

acrid
acute
affix
air
ala

archive
archives
bizarre
brusque
category

scarecrow
woodman
tip
bug
emerald

piglet
wizard
Eureka
sawhorse
gargoyle

Israel
Micah
philistine
Samson
lord

Definition of foot

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Vocabulary Lists for foot

Words that contain foot