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foot
noun
1 foot
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.
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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.].
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Dutch: poot, pootje, voet, voeten
Polish: płetwa
2 foot
A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
synonym: ft.
Dutch: voet, Engelse voet
Polish: stopa
3 foot
The lower part of anything.
Dutch: voet
4 foot
The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings.
synonym: animal foot.
5 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.
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Dutch: basis, bedding, fundament, fundering, grondslag, grondvest, grondvesting
Polish: fundament
6 foot
Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates.
synonym: invertebrate foot.
7 foot
8 foot
A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger.
9 foot
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
10 foot
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
11 foot
A support resembling a pedal extremity.
verb
1 foot
Pay for something:
— Foot the bill.
synonym: pick.
2 foot
3 foot
Add a column of numbers.
synonym: foot up.
Moby thesaurus: Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, add, amble, ambulate, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, ankle, antispast, arch, arsis, bacchius, ball the jack, barge, barrel, base, baseboard.
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