Definition of fot

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1. foot [ n ] the foot of a human being
Examples: "his bare feet projected from his trousers" "armored from head to foot"

Used in print:

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

And still another witness , one who had crawled out from under a heap of corpses , had_to tell how the victims had been forced to lay themselves head to foot one on top of the other before being shot .

(Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)

Goulding leaped to his feet and started forward , `` Garryowen '' ! on his lips , his men following .

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

I was careful to keep my feet , the seat of the least worthy spirits , from pointing at anyone 's head , where the worthiest spirits reside .

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

I have no picture in my mind of the garden as_a_whole - that I could not see - but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory : wind-blown , frost-bitten , white chrysanthemums beneath a window , with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ripe pears lying in long grass , to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot , cautiously , lest bees still worked in the ragged , brown edged holes ; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch , where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it .

The hoofmarks of cattle and the prints of bare feet in the mud or in the dust were as numerous as the traces of shod horses .

Synonyms foot pes human_foot Related Terms vertebrate_foot flatfoot homo leg toe heel metatarsal_artery digital_arteries sole instep intercapitular_vein big_toe little_toe metatarsal_vein arcuate_artery heelbone

2. foot [ n ] a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
Examples: "he is six feet tall"

Used in print:

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Keegan , a 6 - foot - 3 - inch 158 - pounder , gave_up the Orioles ' last two safeties over the final three frames , escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally .

In the ninth , Robinson led off with his second double of the night , a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left .

Lumpe worked a walk as the first batter to face Hyde and romped around as Siebern blasted Hyde 's next toss 415 feet over the scoreboard in right center .

Breeding to Adair to Gentile , setting_up Tuttle 's 390 - foot homer over the wall in left center .

The 6 - foot 3 inch Hansen checked_in close_to 200 pounds , 15 pounds lighter than his reporting_weight last spring .

Synonyms foot ft Related Terms linear_unit yard chain inch

3. foot [ n ] the lower part of anything
Examples: "curled up on the foot of the bed" "the foot of the page" "the foot of the list" "the foot of the mountain"

Used in print:

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

There were three houses in Salyer_'s_Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff , the road winding along the top , entering above , and_then passing down in_front_of the houses , thence to the Vermejo .

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

She put the slipper neatly by its mate at the foot of the bed .

His father would come upstairs and stand self-consciously at the foot of the bed and look_at his son .

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

What did it matter_to him that the park at the foot of Ash_Road stretched beneath elevated trains that roared from the stucco station into the city 's center at half-hour intervals ?

Synonyms foot Related Terms head bottom

4. foot [ n ] a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

Used in print:

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

Katie scrambled to her feet , Stevie agilely retaining his seat .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

They could hear the pony 's feet on the dry leaves for_a_while , then the sound faded_out .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

I learned , for_example , that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and , in winter , of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet .

Synonyms foot animal_foot Related Terms vertebrate_foot hoof hoof paw hindfoot webfoot trotter forefoot bird's_foot fossorial_foot

5. foot [ n ] lowest support of a structure
Examples: "it was built on a base of solid rock" "he stood at the foot of the tower"

Used in print:

(Jay Williams, The Forger....)

I had come prepared to worship at the feet of this classic , and he turned_out to be a rather bitter old_man who smelled of dead cigars .

Synonyms base foot foundation groundwork substructure understructure fundament Related Terms support raft_foundation bed structure

6. foot [ n ] any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

Used in print:

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies , and in_spite_of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt .

Synonyms foot invertebrate_foot Related Terms organ tube_foot invertebrate

7. foot [ n ] travel by foot
Examples: "he followed on foot" "the swiftest of foot"

Used in print:

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

Martha_Schuyler , old , slow , careful of foot , came_down the great staircase , dressed in her best lace-drawn black silk , her jeweled shoe buckles held forward .

Synonyms foot Related Terms walk

8. foot [ v ] pay for something
Examples: "pick up the tab" "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" "foot the bill"

Used in print:

(William Gomberg, "Unions and the Anti-Trust Laws"...)

In_addition , disclosures that missile workers were earning sums far in_excess of_what is paid for equivalent work elsewhere provoked his indignation on behalf of the American taxpayer who was footing the bill .

Synonyms foot pick Related Terms pay

9. foot [ v ] informal or colloquial synonyms of 'walk' "

Synonyms leg_it hoof hoof_it foot Related Terms walk colloquialism pedestrian

10. foot [ n ] an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
Examples: "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

Synonyms infantry foot Related Terms army_unit paratroops military

11. foot [ n ] a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

Synonyms foot Related Terms secret_agent

12. foot [ v ] add a column of numbers

Synonyms foot_up foot Related Terms add arithmetic

13. foot [ n ] a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Synonyms foot metrical_unit metrical_foot Related Terms meter anapest pyrrhic amphibrach trochee spondee iamb mora dactyl

14. Foot [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 27703

Synonyms Foot

15. foot [ n ] a support resembling a pedal extremity
Examples: "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

Synonyms foot Related Terms support leg

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