The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint:
— Armored from head to foot.

synonyms: human foot, pes.

Roget 200: length, longitude, span; mileage; distance etc. 196.    line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.    lengthening etc. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure^†; extension.    [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent^†, handbreadth^†, jornada [U.S.], kos^†, vara^†.    [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year, parsec.    [metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.    pedometer, perambulator; scale etc. (measurement) 466.    ... show more

Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon^†, Pierides, Pierian spring.    versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry^†.    poem; epic, epic poem; epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.    dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music etc. 415; nursery rhymes.    [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse^†, prose run mad; macaronics^†; macaronic verse^†, leonine verse; runes.    canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^†.    verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation etc. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.    elegiacs etc. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.    poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].    ... show more

Dutch: poot, pootje, voet, voeten
Polish: płetwa

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

synonym: ft.

Dutch: voet, Engelse voet
Polish: stopa

The lower part of anything.

Dutch: voet

The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings.

synonym: animal foot.

Lowest support of a structure:
— He stood at the foot of the tower.

synonyms: base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure.

Roget 211: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard^†; bedrock, hardpan [U.S.]; foundation etc. (support) 215; substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge.    bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard.    ... show more

Dutch: basis, bedding, fundament, fundering, grondslag, grondvest, grondvesting
Polish: fundament

Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates.

synonym: invertebrate foot.

Travel by walking.

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

An army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot:
— There came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot.

synonym: infantry.

Dutch: infanterie, voetvolk
Polish: piechota

prosody A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.

synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit.

Dutch: versvoet, voet
Polish: stopa

A support resembling a pedal extremity.

Pay for something:
— Foot the bill.

synonym: pick.

Walk.

synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it.

Add a column of numbers.

synonym: foot up.