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Definition of foot:
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"
a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall" 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" the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot" a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet" pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" walk; "let's hoof it to the disco" add a column of numbers |