foot

Meanings

Noun

• A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
• Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
• Travel by walking.
• The base or bottom of anything.
• The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
• The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
• A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
• A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
• A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
• Foot soldiers; infantry.
• The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
• The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
• The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
• The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
• The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
• The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
• The bottom edge of a sail.
• The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
• In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
• The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
• The globular lower domain of a protein.
• The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
• Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
• Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Verb

• To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
• To pay (a bill).
• To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
• To walk.
• To tread.
• To set on foot; to establish; to land.
• To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
• To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

Related

Similar words

• pes

Origin

• From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. pes, and pous.