Definition of "foot"

foot

/fʊt/

noun
plural feet or (UK colloquial, unit of measure) foot
1. 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.
2. (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
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  And when I ſawe him, I fell at his feete as dead : and hee laid his right hand vpon me, ſaying vnto mee, Feare not, *I am the firſt,and the laſt.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Revelation 1:17
3. (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
4. The base or bottom of anything.
5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
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  No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus
  1. (informal) Ellipsis of square foot. A unit of area.
  2. (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot. A unit of volume.
9. (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
10. (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
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  His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
11. (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
12. (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
13. (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
14. (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
15. (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
16. (phonology) 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.
17. (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
18. (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
19. (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
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  (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
  1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 4
20. (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
21. (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
22. (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
23. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
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  To conſider the vvhole of the Subject, to read and think on all ſides, to object plainly, and anſvver directly, upon the foot of dry Reaſon and Argument, vvou'd be a very tedious and troubleſome Affair.
  1732, George Berkeley, “The Sixth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], section XXXI, page 121
24. Recognized condition; rank; footing.
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  As to his being on the foot of a servant.
  May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
verb
third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed
1. (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
2. (transitive) To pay (a bill).
3. To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
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  There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
  1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
  He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground
  1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], book The Wife of Bath's Tale
4. To walk.
  Quotations
  thieves do foot by night
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
5. (now rare) To set foot on; to walk on.
  Quotations
  […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green
  1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens
  People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.
  1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 84
6. (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
  Quotations
  What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene vii]
7. To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
  Quotations
  I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too
  19th century, William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth Part 1 (modern edited version)
8. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

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