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English noun: foot | |||
| 1. | foot (body) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint | ||
| Samples | His bare feet projected from his trousers. Armored from head to foot. | ||
| Synonyms | human foot, pes | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pedal extremity, vertebrate foot | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | flatfoot, pes planus, splayfoot | ||
| Part holonym | arcuate artery, arteria arcuata, arteria digitalis, arteria metatarsea, big toe, calcaneus, digital arteries, great toe, hallux, heel, heelbone, instep, intercapitular vein, little toe, metatarsal artery, metatarsal vein, os tarsi fibulare, sole, toe, vena intercapitalis, vena metatarsus | ||
| Part meronym | homo, human, human being, leg, man | ||
| 2. | foot (quantity) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard | ||
| Samples | He is six feet tall. | ||
| Synonyms | ft | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | linear measure, linear unit | ||
| Part holonym | in, inch | ||
| Part meronym | pace, yard | ||
| 3. | foot (location) the lower part of anything | ||
| Samples | Curled up on the foot of the bed. The foot of the page. The foot of the list. The foot of the mountain. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bottom | ||
| Antonyms | head | ||
| 4. | foot (animal) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings | ||
| Synonyms | animal foot | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pedal extremity, vertebrate foot | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bird's foot, forefoot, fossorial foot, hindfoot, hoof, paw, trotter, webfoot | ||
| 5. | foot (artifact) lowest support of a structure | ||
| Samples | It was built on a base of solid rock. He stood at the foot of the tower. | ||
| Synonyms | base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | support | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bed, raft foundation | ||
| Part meronym | construction, structure | ||
| 6. | foot (animal) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates | ||
| Synonyms | invertebrate foot | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organ | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | tube foot | ||
| Part meronym | invertebrate | ||
| 7. | foot (act) travel by walking | ||
| Samples | He followed on foot. The swiftest of foot. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | walk | ||
| 8. | foot (person) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent | ||
| 9. | foot (group) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | ||
| Samples | There came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot. | ||
| Synonyms | infantry | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | army unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | paratroops | ||
| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
| 10. | foot (communication) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | ||
| Synonyms | metrical foot, metrical unit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amphibrach, anapaest, anapest, dactyl, dibrach, iamb, iambus, pyrrhic, spondee, trochee | ||
| Domain category | metrics, prosody | ||
| 11. | foot (artifact) a support resembling a pedal extremity | ||
| Samples | One foot of the chair was on the carpet. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | support | ||
| Part meronym | leg | ||
English verb: foot | |||
| 1. | foot (possession) pay for something | ||
| Samples | Pick up the tab. Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages. Foot the bill. | ||
| Synonyms | pick | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pay | ||
| 2. | foot (motion) walk | ||
| Samples | Let's hoof it to the disco. | ||
| Synonyms | hoof, hoof it, leg it | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | walk | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| 3. | foot (cognition) add a column of numbers | ||
| Synonyms | foot up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | add, add together | ||
| Domain category | arithmetic | ||
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