feet (See foot)

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]

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)]

English

Pronunciation

• , /fiːt/, /fi:t/
• Rhymes with: -iːt

Noun

feet

1. irregular plural of foot

Homophones

• feat

Derived terms

• itchy feet

Translations

See the links at the translations for foot

Foot may refer to or be defined as:

• The foot of humans and other animals including some underwater mammals
• Foot (accounting), to add a column of numbers
• Foot (length), a unit of length in the customary system
• Foot (prosody), a term used to define meter in poetry
• Foot (sewing), part of a sewing machine
• Foot (sailing), the lower edge of a sail
• Infantry; see List of Regiments of Foot
• The Foot Clan, a group of ninja in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
• Foot (mollusc), part of the typical mollusc body plan along with the shell, viscera, and mantle
• Foot is also a surname, as in
  • David Foot (economist)
  • Dingle Foot
  • Hugh Foot
  • Isaac Foot
  • John Foot, Baron Foot
  • Michael Foot
  • Michael Richard Daniell Foot
  • Paul Foot
  • Philippa Foot
  • Robert W. Foot
  • Samuel A. Foot
  • Solomon Foot

See also

• Foote
• Footer
• Bigfoot
• Ft