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foot in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
    animal foot  foot 
  2. lowest support of a structure
    "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
    foundation  base  fundament  foot  groundwork  substructure  understructure 
  3. travel by walking
    "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"
    foot 
  4. any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
    foot  invertebrate foot 
  5. a support resembling a pedal extremity
    "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
    foot 
  6. the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
    "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"
    foot  human foot  pes 
  7. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
    metrical foot  foot  metrical unit 
  8. an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
    "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
    infantry  foot 
  9. 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"
    foot 
  10. a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
    foot 
  11. a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
    "he is six feet tall"
    foot  ft 
verb
  1. add a column of numbers
    foot  foot up 
  2. walk
    "let's hoof it to the disco"
    foot  leg it  hoof  hoof it 
  3. pay for something
    "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
    foot  pick 
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