foot
Other forms: feet; footing; footed; foots
Your foot is like your leg's hand, and a foot is twelve inches. When you walk, you go by foot.
Since feet are so important, the word foot has many meanings. The main one is that thing below your ankle — people have feet, and so do many animals. The lower part of a bed is the foot of the bed — the foot of a mountain is also where you would expect it. The lower part of anything could be called a foot. Paying for something is footing the bill, and footing up a column of numbers is adding them up.
Definitions of foot
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the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
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synonyms:
animal foot
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fossorial foot
foot adapted for digging as in moles
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hoof
the foot of an ungulate mammal
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bird's foot
the foot of a bird
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webfoot
a foot having the toes connected by folds of skin
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trotter
foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food
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forefoot
a front foot of a quadruped
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hindfoot
a rear foot of a quadruped
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paw
a clawed foot of an animal, especially a quadruped
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cloven foot, cloven hoof
a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine)
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claw
a bird's foot
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zygodactyl foot
a bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward
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heterodactyl foot
a bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward
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webbed foot
a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes
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lobate foot
a bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides
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horse's foot
the hoof of a horse
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forepaw
front paw; analogous to the human hand
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type of:
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pedal extremity, vertebrate foot
the extremity of the limb in vertebrates
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the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint“his bare feet projected from his trousers”“armored from head to foot”
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synonyms:
human foot, pes
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flatfoot, pes planus, splayfoot
a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
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pedal extremity, vertebrate foot
the extremity of the limb in vertebrates
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flatfoot, pes planus, splayfoot
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any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
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synonyms:
invertebrate foot
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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
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organ
a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
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tube foot
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travel by walking
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a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
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intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
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intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
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an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot“there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot”
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synonyms:
infantry
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paratroops
infantry trained and equipped to parachute
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army unit
a military unit that is part of an army
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paratroops
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walk
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the lower part of anything
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lowest support of a structure“he stood at the foot of the tower”
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synonyms:
base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure
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bed
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
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raft foundation
a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
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railroad bed
a bed on which railroad track is laid
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roadbed
a bed supporting a road
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support
supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
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a support resembling a pedal extremity“one foot of the chair was on the carpet”
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support
any device that bears the weight of another thing
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support
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a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard“he is six feet tall”
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synonyms:
ft
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linear measure, linear unit
a unit of measurement of length
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linear measure, linear unit
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(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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synonyms:
metrical foot, metrical unit
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dactyl
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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iamb, iambus
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
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anapaest, anapest
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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amphibrach
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')
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trochee
a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
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spondee
a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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dibrach, pyrrhic
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
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pay for something
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add a column of numbers
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synonyms:
foot up
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add, add together
make an addition by combining numbers
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add, add together
Pronunciation
US
/fʊt/
UK
/fʊt/
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