Definition of Foot

Noun

• a support resembling a pedal extremity
  "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
  
• (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  - metrical foot - metrical unit
• an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
  "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
  infantry
• a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
  
• travel by walking
  "he followed on foot"
  "the swiftest of foot"
  
• any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
  - invertebrate foot
• lowest support of a structure
  "it was built on a base of solid rock"
  "he stood at the foot of the tower"
  foundation base fundament groundwork substructure - understructure
• the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
  - animal foot
• the lower part of anything
  "curled up on the foot of the bed"
  "the foot of the page"
  "the foot of the list"
  "the foot of the mountain"
  
• a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
  "he is six feet tall"
  - ft
• the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
  "his bare feet projected from his trousers"
  "armored from head to foot"
  - human foot pes

Verb

• add a column of numbers
  - foot up
• walk
  "let's hoof it to the disco"
  - leg it hoof - hoof it
• pay for something
  "pick up the tab"
  "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
  "foot the bill"
  pick

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