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foot

UK/fʊt/ US/fʊt/ common informal
noun (11) verb (3)

noun

1.

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

  • “he is six feet tall”
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2.

the foot of a human being

  • “his bare feet projected from his trousers”
  • “armored from head to foot”
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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”
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4.

travel by foot

  • “he followed on foot”
  • “the swiftest of foot”
5.

a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

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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”
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8.

any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

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9.

an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot

  • “there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot”
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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

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verb

1.

pay for something

  • “pick up the tab”
  • “pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages”
  • “foot the bill”
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2.

walk

  • “let”
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3.

add a column of numbers

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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. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous. Cognates *Scots fit (“foot”) *Yola voote (“foot”) *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”) *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”) *West Frisian foet (“foot”) *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”) *Dutch voet (“foot”) *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”) *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”) *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”) *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”) *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”) *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”) *Vilamovian füs (“foot”) *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”) *Danish fod (“foot”) *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”) *Jamtish fót (“foot”) *Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”) *Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”).

Phrases

  • 000-foot view
  • 10-foot user interface
  • a closed mouth gathers no feet
  • acre foot
  • Alexander's Foot
  • athlete's foot
  • back foot
  • foot the bill
  • thirty-thousand-foot view

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