foot
n 1: the foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his
trousers"; "armored from head to foot" [syn: {human foot}]
2: a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a
yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn: {ft}]
3: 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" [ant: {head}]
4: a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being [syn: {animal
foot}]
5: lowest supporting part of a structure; "it was built on a
base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
[syn: {foundation}, {base}, {fundament}, {groundwork}, {substructure},
{understructure}]
6: any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in
invertebrates [syn: {invertebrate foot}]
7: travel by foot; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of
foot"
8: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;
"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed
foot" [syn: {infantry}]
9: a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic
rhythm [syn: {metrical foot}, {metrical unit}]
10: a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the
chair was on the carpet"
v 1: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of
high interest mortgages" [syn: {pick}]
2: informal or colloquial synonyms of 'walk' " [syn: {leg it},
{hoof}, {hoof it}]