Overview of noun foot

The noun foot has 11 senses

• foot, human foot, pes -- (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")


• foot, ft -- (a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall")


• foot -- (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")


• animal foot, foot -- (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings)


• foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure -- (lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower")


• foot, invertebrate foot -- (any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates)


• foot -- (travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot")


• foot -- (a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger)


• infantry, foot -- (an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot")


• metrical foot, foot, metrical unit -- ((prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm)


• foot -- (a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet")

Overview of verb foot

The verb foot has 3 senses

• foot, pick -- (pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill")


• foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it -- (walk; "let's hoof it to the disco")


• foot, foot up -- (add a column of numbers)