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. ... show more
Roget 597: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon†, Pierides, Pierian spring. versification, rhyming, making verses; ... show more
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, ... show more
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
Travel by walking.
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 ... show more.
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