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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: fo͝ot, IPA(key): /fʊt/, [fʊt]
- Rhymes: -ʊt
Noun
[edit]foot (plural feet or (UK colloquial, unit of measure) foot)
- 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.
- A spider has eight feet.
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:17:
- 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.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.
- There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- We came and stood at the foot of the bed.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- The host should sit at the foot of the table.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.
- 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, →OCLC:
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (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.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
- (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- 1732, George Berkeley, “The Sixth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXXI, page 121:
- 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.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
- As to his being on the foot of a servant.
- May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
Usage notes
[edit]- (unit of length):
- The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is feet, but in some contexts, foot itself may be used ("he is six foot two"). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.[1] In the UK, however, foot is colloquially used as a plural in all contexts for the unit of measure, even where such usage would not be natural in other varieties of English.
- It is sometimes abbreviated ', such as in tables, lists or drawings.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (unit of length): inch, yard, mile
- (end of a table): head, sides
- (bottom of a page): head, body
- (bottom edge of a sail): head, leech, luff
- (molecular domain): head, cleft, neck
- (infantry): horse
Derived terms
[edit]- 10-foot user interface
- 12-foot
- 4-foot
- 6-foot
- 8-foot
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- acre-foot
- acre foot
- afoot
- ampere-foot
- athlete's foot
- back foot
- back foot shot
- bear's-foot
- Beck Foot
- best foot
- Bigfoot
- bind hand and foot
- bird's-foot
- bird's-foot trefoil
- board-foot
- board foot
- by foot
- Canal Foot
- cat-foot
- cat's-foot
- Charcot foot
- Chinese foot
- cloven foot
- club-foot
- club foot
- clubfoot
- cock's-foot
- colt's foot
- colt's-foot
- Crag Foot
- crow's foot
- crow's-foot
- cubic foot
- dove's-foot
- drop foot
- dry-foot
- duck's-foot
- elephant foot yam
- elephant's foot
- Elephant's Foot
- end-foot
- fan-foot
- fin-foot
- first-foot
- flat-foot
- fleet of foot
- footage
- foot and mouth
- foot-and-mouth disease
- foot ball
- football
- foot-ball
- foot bath
- foot-bath
- footbath
- footboard
- footboy
- foot brake
- footbridge
- footcandle
- foot candle
- foot-candle
- foot chase
- foot-dragger
- foot-dragging
- foot drop
- foot-fall
- footfall
- foot fault
- foot feed
- foot fetish
- foot fetishism
- foot-ganger
- footgear
- foot-goer
- foot guard
- foot heater
- foothill
- foothold
- footing
- foot-in-mouth disease
- foot-in-the-door technique
- foot iron
- foot it
- foot-jaw
- foot job
- foot juggling
- foot kiss
- foot-lambert
- foot landraker
- foot lifter
- foot-light
- footlights
- foot line
- foot locker
- footlocker
- footloose
- foot louse
- footly
- footman
- footmanship
- foot mantle
- footmeal
- foot-mouth
- footnote
- foot-pace
- foot pace
- footpad
- foot pad
- foot-pad
- foot passenger
- footpath
- foot patrol
- foot peg
- foot per second
- footplate
- foot post
- foot-pound
- foot-poundal
- foot-pound-second
- footprint
- foot pump
- foot race
- foot rest
- footrest
- foot roller
- footrope
- foot rot
- foot-scamp
- foot screw
- footsie
- footsie-wootsies
- foot-slog
- foot soldier
- footsore
- foot-stalk
- footstep
- foot stick
- footstone
- foot-stool
- footstool
- foot stove
- foot-strut split
- foot sweep
- foot-tapping
- foot-ton
- foot trap
- foot-travel
- foot trip
- foot up
- foot valve
- foot voting
- foot-warmer
- foot warmer
- footwear
- footwell
- footwork
- footworn
- four-foot
- four foot
- fox's foot
- front-foot
- front foot
- front foot shot
- get cold feet
- get off on the right foot
- get off on the wrong foot
- get one's foot in the door
- goat's foot
- goofy-foot
- Greek foot
- half foot
- hand and foot
- hand-foot-mouth disease
- hand-foot syndrome
- hare's-foot
- hare's foot
- hare's-foot fern
- have a foot in both camps
- have one foot in the grave
- have one foot on a banana peel
- have the black ox tread on one's foot
- headfooter
- head to foot
- heavy-foot
- hen's-foot
- Hong Kong foot
- hoppus foot
- horse and foot
- ice-foot
- ice foot
- I'll go to the foot of our stairs
- immersion foot
- international foot
- itchy feet
- Japanese foot
- Kenton Bank Foot
- kick with the other foot
- light on one's feet
- lily foot
- linear foot
- lion's foot
- lotus foot
- Luddenden Foot, Luddendenfoot
- Madura foot
- mast foot
- metric foot
- moccasin foot
- my foot
- ninja foot
- not touch something with a ten-foot pole
- not touch with a ten-foot pole
- of foot
- off the back foot
- one foot
- on foot
- on the back foot
- on the front foot
- on the right foot
- on the wrong foot
- pelican's foot
- plant foot
- polt-foot
- polt foot
- presser foot
- puppy foot
- put a foot wrong
- put foot to ass
- put one foot in front of the other
- put one's best foot foremost
- put one's best foot forward
- put one's foot down
- put one's foot down on
- put one's foot down upon
- put one's foot in it
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- put one's foot in someone's ass
- put one's foot up someone's ass
- put the same shoe on every foot
- put the shoe on the other foot
- rabbit-foot
- rabbit foot
- rabbit's foot
- rabbit's-foot fern
- Roman foot
- run someone off their feet
- set foot on land
- set on foot
- sheep's foot
- shoot oneself in the foot
- show the cloven foot
- side-foot
- single-foot
- six foot
- slew-foot
- slue-foot
- snowshoe foot
- spade foot
- spade-foot
- spear foot
- square foot
- start off on the wrong foot
- step foot
- stick one's foot in it
- stick one's foot in one's mouth
- stocking-foot
- ten foot
- the boot is on the other foot
- the shoe is on the other foot
- tie hand and foot
- tiger-foot
- tiger's-foot
- trench foot
- tube foot
- turn of foot
- U.S. survey foot
- US survey foot
- wait on someone hand and foot
- wait upon hand and foot
- webbed foot
- webfoot
- what foot the shoe is on
- which foot the shoe is on
- whorl foot
- whose foot the shoe is on
- wolf's-foot
- wrong foot
- wrong-foot, wrongfoot
- you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
- zone foot therapy
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]part of human body
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part of animal’s body
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bottom of anything
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projection on equipment
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unit of measure
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metrical foot — see metrical foot
bottom edge of a sail
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See also
[edit]- pedal, relating to the foot
Verb
[edit]foot (third-person singular simple present foots, present participle footing, simple past and past participle footed)
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
- There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
- 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book The Wife of Bath's Tale:
- He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round,
That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1 (Dramas 2, p.217)
- To walk.
- 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, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- thieves do foot by night
- (now rare) To set foot on; to walk on.
- 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Gardens:
- […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 84:
- People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.
- (obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- 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, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
- What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- 19th century, William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth Part 1 (modern edited version)
- I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too
- 19th century, William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth Part 1 (modern edited version)
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- to foot (or foot up) an account
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]kick
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pay
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References
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]foot m (uncountable)
- (colloquial) association football; football, soccer
- Zidane est un des meilleurs joueurs de foot du monde.
- Zidane is one of the best football players in the world.
- Toutes les semaines, il regarde du foot à la télé.
- Every week, he watches football on TV.
- (colloquial, uncommon) footy (a nickname for several different football codes)
Derived terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]foot
- Alternative form of fot
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]foot
- Alternative form of foten
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-
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- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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