name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Michael Foot (1913–2010) was a British politician.
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name
A surname.
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noun
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.
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noun
Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
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Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Travel by walking.
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Usage: attributive, often
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noun
The base or bottom of anything.
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noun
The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
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noun
The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
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noun
A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
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noun
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
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noun
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
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noun
A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
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noun
A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
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Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Foot soldiers; infantry.
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Usage: collective
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
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Topics: cigars, lifestyle
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noun
The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
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Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
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noun
The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
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Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
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Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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noun
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.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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noun
The bottom edge of a sail.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
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Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
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Topics: biology, malacology, natural-sciences
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noun
The globular lower domain of a protein.
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Qualifier: molecular biology
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noun
The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
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Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
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noun
Recognized condition; rank; footing.
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verb
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To pay (a bill).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
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verb
To walk.
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verb
To set foot on; to walk on.
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Usage: archaic
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verb
To set on foot; to establish; to land.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
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verb
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
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verb
To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
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Usage: Ireland, transitive
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noun
travel by walking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: walk
noun
the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: animal foot
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Broader terms: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
Narrower terms: fossorial foot, hoof, bird's foot, webfoot, trotter, forefoot, hindfoot, paw
noun
any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: invertebrate foot
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Broader terms: organ
Narrower terms: tube foot
noun
a support resembling a pedal extremity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: support
noun
lowest support of a structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: foundation, base, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure
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Broader terms: support
Narrower terms: bed, raft foundation
noun
the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: human foot, pes
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Broader terms: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity
Narrower terms: flatfoot, splayfoot, pes planus
noun
(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit
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Broader terms: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence
Narrower terms: dactyl, iamb, iambus, anapest, anapaest, amphibrach, trochee, spondee, pyrrhic, dibrach
noun
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: infantry
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Broader terms: army unit
Narrower terms: paratroops
noun
the lower part of anything
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Antonyms: head
Broader terms: bottom
noun
a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
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Broader terms: secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
noun
a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ft
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Broader terms: linear unit, linear measure
verb
add a column of numbers
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Synonyms: foot up
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Broader terms: add, add together
verb
walk
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Synonyms: leg it, hoof, hoof it
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Broader terms: walk
verb
pay for something
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Synonyms: pick
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Broader terms: pay
History
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”).
Across languages
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