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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

... only other great civilisation. Take my people here at my doors; their life is a very good one; it is quite thinkable, quite acceptable to us. And the little dears will be soon skating on the other foot; sooner or later, in each generation, the one-half of them at least begin to remember all the material they had rejected when first they made and nailed up their little theory of life; and these become reactionaries or conservatives, ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... a pebble, genius neither distorts nor false-colours its objects; but on the contrary brings out many a vein and many a tint, which escape the eye of common observation, thus raising to the rank of gems what had been often kicked away by the hurrying foot of the traveller on the dusty high ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... linked up memory with itself and the house was named, not "The People's Club," as at first intended, but "Cedar Mountain House"—the word "mountain" being justified in the fact that the house was on a prairie knoll at least a foot above the ...

— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

... the commoner experiences and the great outstanding ones: the mountain range with the foot-hills below and the towering peaks above. From His earliest consciousness until the cross was reached, Jesus ran the whole gamut of human experiences common to us all, with some greater ones, which are ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... of the Transalpine and Cisalpine Gauls. The Senate ordered the envoys they had just then at Carthage to traverse Gaul on returning, and seek out allies there against Hannibal. The envoys halted amongst the Gallo-Iberian peoplets who lived at the foot of the eastern Pyrenees. There, in the midst of the warriors assembled in arms, they charged them in the name of the great and powerful Roman people, not to suffer the Carthaginians to pass through their territory. Tumultuous laughter arose at a request that appeared so strange. "You wish ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

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