
foot
n 1: a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a
yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn: {ft}]
2: the foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his
trousers"; "armored from head to foot" [syn: {human foot},
{pes}]
3: the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the
bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the
foot of the mountain" [ant: {head}]
4: travel by foot; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of
foot"
5: a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being [syn: {animal
foot}]
6: a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the
chair was on the carpet"
7: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of
solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: {foundation},
{base}, {fundament}, {groundwork}, {substructure}, {understructure}]
8: any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in
invertebrates [syn: {invertebrate foot}]
9: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;
"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed
foot" [syn: {infantry}]
10: a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides
as a passenger
11: a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic
rhythm [syn: {metrical foot}, {metrical unit}]
v 1: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of
high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" [syn: {pick}]
2: walk; "let's hoof it to the disco" [syn: {leg it}, {hoof}, {hoof
it}]
3: add a column of numbers [syn: {foot up}]
[also: {feet} (pl)]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
FOOT
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