Word: Foot
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Noun
Definitions:
1. The lower extremity of the leg below the ankle, on which a person stands or walks.
Example sentences: "The Antipodes were the body's extremities, its feet or its finger nails."
2. A projecting part on which a piece of furniture or each of its legs stands.
3. The lower or lowest part of something; the base or bottom.
Example sentences: "The foot of the stairs"
4. A unit of linear measure equal to 12 inches (30.48 cm)A unit used in describing sets of organ pipes or harpsichord strings, in terms of the average or approximate length of the vibrating column of air or the string which produces the sound.
Example sentences: "Shallow water no more than a foot deep"
5. A group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables.
Example sentences: "A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Cover a distance, especially a long one, on foot.
Synonyms:
paw
leg
toe
presser
ft
pad
hooves
bottom
foundation
base
basement
footstep
pes
tread
step
walk
foot it
pay
pedal
infantry
stand
spring
Antonyms:
top
upper
Derivations:
footboard
footwear
footfall
footwork
footway
footage
foothold
footed
footless
footing
footer
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Foot in Other Languages...
Spanish: Pie
German: Fuß
French: Pied
Italian: Piede
Turkish: Ayak
