foot
foot is a 4-letter English word with 32 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
- noun. The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
- noun. That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
- noun. The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
- noun. Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
- noun. Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
- noun. A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
- noun. Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
- noun. A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
- noun. The lower edge of a sail.
- intransitive verb. To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- intransitive verb. To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
- transitive verb. To kick with the foot; to spurn.
- transitive verb. To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- transitive verb. To tread; as, to foot the green.
- transitive verb. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
- transitive verb. The size or strike with the talon.
- transitive verb. To renew the foot of, as of stocking.
- noun. travel by walking
"he followed on foot"
"the swiftest of foot"
- noun. the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- noun. any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- noun. a support resembling a pedal extremity
"one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
- noun. lowest support of a structure
"it was built on a base of solid rock"
"he stood at the foot of the tower"
- noun. 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"
- noun. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- noun. an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
- noun. the lower part of anything
"curled up on the foot of the bed"
"the foot of the page"
- noun. a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- noun. a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
"he is six feet tall"
- verb. add a column of numbers
- verb. walk
"let's hoof it to the disco"
- verb. pay for something
"pick up the tab"
"pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
Synonyms
base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure, pes, infantry, ft, hoof, pick
Common word forms
foots, footed, footer, footful, footing, footless
Words from these letters
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