Foot

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
 * Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  The base or bottom of anything.
 * I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.
 * 1)  The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
 * We came and stood at the foot of the bed.
 * 1)  The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
 * The host should sit at the foot of the table.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
 * Most people are less than six feet tall.
 * 1)  Foot soldiers; infantry.
 * King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.
 * 1)  The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
 * 2)  The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
 * 3)  The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
 * 4)  The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  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.
 * 1)  The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
 * 2)  In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
 * (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
 * 1)  The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
 * 2)  The globular lower domain of a protein.
 * 3)  The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.
 * 1)  The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.

Derived terms

 * a closed mouth gathers no feet
 * afoot
 * acre-foot
 * athlete's foot
 * best foot
 * Bigfoot
 * board foot
 * clubfoot
 * cubic foot
 * footage
 * football
 * footboard
 * footboy
 * foot brake
 * footbridge
 * footcandle


 * footfall
 * foot fault
 * footgear
 * foothill
 * foothold
 * footing
 * foot-in-mouth disease
 * foot iron
 * foot landraker
 * footlights
 * foot line
 * footlocker
 * footloose
 * foot louse
 * footman
 * foot-mouth


 * footnote
 * footpad
 * footpath
 * foot-pound
 * foot post
 * footprint
 * foot pump
 * footrest
 * footrope
 * foot soldier
 * footsore
 * footstep
 * footstone
 * footstool
 * foot warmer
 * footwear


 * foot-well
 * footwork
 * footworn
 * four foot
 * get one's foot in the door
 * immersion foot
 * itchy feet
 * put one's foot in one's mouth
 * rabbit's foot
 * roman foot
 * shoot oneself in the foot
 * six foot
 * square foot
 * start off on the wrong foot
 * trench foot
 * wrongfoot


 * See also feet

Coordinate terms

 * inch, yard, mile
 * head, sides
 * head, body
 * head, leech, luff
 * head, cleft, neck
 * horse

Verb

 * 1)  To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
 * 2)  To pay (a bill).
 * 3)  To parse into metrical feet.

Derived terms

 * foot the bill

Adjectives for Foot
andering; blistered; emphatic; itching; fiery; stealthy; mutilated; inaudible; noiseless;  crushing;   punctilious;   spurning feathered;  ponderous;  restless;  fearful godlike; diminutive; forgetful; cautious unresisting; swelled; slight; slender; bounding; maladjusted; individual; tentative struggling; cloven; careless; investigating nimble; fairy; exquisite; shapely; tiniest beautiful; small; bare; dangling; naked; extended; sensitive; sandaled; exploring large-booted; gout-ridden.

Verbs for Foot
ail—; bandage—; bare—; brace—; chafe —; control—; drum—; elevate—; expose—; injure—; journey on—; lame—; lay—on; massage—; plant—;  plunk  (colloq.)—; scramble to feet; shod—; shuffle feet; spring to feet; stagger to feet; stamp—; trample under—; wander on—; —aches; —drags;—pounds; —presses; feet scurry; —sinks in; —soils; feet slacken their pace; —treads on; pad—; recognize—; trace—; tread in—; —destroys; —exposes; —lags; —mars; — trips; —lags; —marks; feet patter,  marks; —patters; —presses; —resounds; — reveals; —sinks in; —soils; —surprises; —

Thesaurus
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, add, amble, ambulate, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, ankle, antispast, arch, arsis, bacchius, ball the jack, barge, barrel, base, baseboard, basement, beat, boltrope, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, bundle, cadence, caesura, canvas, cast, catalexis, chassis, chloriamb, chloriambus, circumambulate, clew, clip, clog, cloth, clubfoot, clump, colon, counterpoint, cretic, cringle, crowd of sail, cut along, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, dado, dance, diaeresis, digit, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, dog, drag, drift, earing, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extremity, feminine caesura, fetlock, figure, fleet, flit, float, flounce, fly, fly low, foot it, footing, footslog, fore-and-aft sail, forefoot, forepaw, foundation, fox-trot, frame, gather way, ghost, glide, go fast, halt, harefoot, head, heel, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, highball, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hoof it, hop, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, instep, ionic, jaywalk, jingle, jog, jog on, jolt, jump, keel, leech, leg, leg it, lilt, limp, luff, lumber, lunge, lurch, make headway, make knots, make sternway, make way, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, mince, molossus, mopboard, mora, movement, muslin, nadir, nip, numbers, outstrip the wind, pace, pad, paddle, paeon, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pedestrianize, peg, pentameter, pentapody, perambulate, period, peripateticate, pes, piaffe, piaffer, pied, plain sail, plod, plow the deep, pour it on, prance, press of sail, proceleusmatic, pug, pyrrhic, quantity, rack, rag, reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, rhythm, ride, ride the sea, rip, roll, run, sail, sashay, saunter, scorch, scud, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shimmy, shoemold, shoot, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, sizzle, skim, skip, slink, slip, slither, slog, slouch, sole, speed, splayfoot, spondee, sprung rhythm, square sail, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, storm along, straddle, straggle, stress, stride, stroll, strut, stump, stump it, sum, summate, swagger, sweep, swing, syzygy, tap-dance, tear, tear along, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, thunder along, tittup, toddle, toe, tootsy, tot, total, tote, totter, traipse, tread, tribrach, trimeter, trip, tripody, triseme, trochee, trotter, trudge, ungula, waddle, wainscot, walk, walk the waters, waltz, wamble, whisk, whiz, wiggle, wobble, zing, zip, zoom

Etymology
From fot:, from  (compare West Frisian foet:, Dutch voet:, German Fuß:), from  (compare Hittite undefined:, Latin pes:, Tocharian A pe:, B pai:, Lithuanian pada:, Russian под:, Ancient Greek πούς:, Armenian ոտն:, Sanskrit पद्:).

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: قدم
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: pav, pavioù / pivier
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese (Mandarin):, ,
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:, , koib
 * Ewe: afɔ
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: οπλή (oplé), πόδι (pódi)


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: pėdutės
 * Luxembourgish: Patt
 * Norwegian: pote labb
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: (pâ)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: noha
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mgu
 * Swedish: fot, hov, klöv, tass
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish: ayak


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: këmbë
 * Arabic: (rijl),  (qádam)
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri: ayaq
 * Basque: oin
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: troad, treid
 * Bulgarian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian: pei
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: (aḍar)
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 腳, 脚 (jiǎo) 足 (zú)
 * Cia-Cia:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: пильге (pilge)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: afɔ
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: pé
 * Gamilaraay: thina
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πόδι (pódi)
 * Ancient: (pous), (Laconian)  (por)
 * Guaraní: py
 * Hebrew: רגל (regel)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: pedo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: pede
 * Irish:
 * Isthmus Zapotec: batañee, ñee
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 足 (あし, ashí)
 * Kannada: ಪಾದ pāda
 * Komi: кок (kok)
 * Korean:


 * Kuna: mali
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: pî, pê, ling, nig
 * Soranî:, ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: pēda, kāja
 * Lithuanian: pėda, koja
 * Luxembourgish: Fouss
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: പാദം
 * Mbabaram: jina
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Persian: (pâ)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Powhatan: mesit
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian: pedi
 * Slovak: noha
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: leoto
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mguu (nc 7/8)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paa
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: į̏ęnénemą
 * Telugu: పాదము (paadamu)
 * Tok Pisin: lek
 * Tupinambá: py
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: پۇت
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük: fut
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: poat ,


 * Armenian: ստորոտ
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Estonian: jaland, jalam, alus
 * Finnish: juuri, tyvi, kanta, alaosa
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: fondo, pié pagina


 * Malayalam: ചുവട്
 * Persian: (bonyâd),  (pâye'),  (pey)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, подножие
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Sicilian: funnu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fot, ben
 * Telugu: పాదము (paadamu) / అడుగు (aDugu) (...depending on the context)


 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: poot, pootje (2)
 * French:
 * Greek: πόδι (pódi)


 * Kurdish:
 * Persian: پایه
 * Scots:
 * Swedish: fot, ben


 * Armenian: ֆուտ
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: πόδι (pódi)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フィート
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian: pēda
 * Lithuanian: pėda
 * Malayalam: അടി
 * Navajo:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: (pâ);  (fut)  or,  (fit)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: фут
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అడుగు (aDugu)


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: versefod/versfod, versefødder/versfødder
 * Estonian: värsijalg
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish: lik dolny


 * Scots:


 * : treid / troadoù (2), troatad, troatadoù  (4)
 * : ფეხი (p'exi)
 * : lek
 * : py

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: potkaista, kenkäistä
 * French: donner un coup de pied à


 * Korean: 차다 (chada)
 * Norwegian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili: mgu
 * Swedish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kinni maksma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: pagar
 * Italian:


 * Luxembourgish: bezuelen
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: bulić
 * Portuguese:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili: mgu
 * Swedish:


 * : paeañ
 * : epyme'ẽ (h-)
 * : gipim pe long
 * : epyme'eng (s-)

Noun

 * 1)   football (soccer)
 * Zidane est un des meilleurs joueurs de foot du monde.
 * Toutes les semaines, il regarde du foot à la télé.

Derived terms

 * ballon de foot