foot: znaczenie i definicje

The lower extremity of the vertebrate leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking.

A structure used for locomotion or attachment in an invertebrate animal, such as the muscular organ extending from the ventral side of a mollusk.

Something suggestive of a foot in position or function, especially:

The lowest part; the bottom: the foot of a mountain; the foot of a page.

The end opposite the head, top, or front: the foot of a bed; the foot of a parade.

The termination of the leg of a piece of furniture, especially when shaped or modeled.

The part of a sewing machine that holds down and guides the cloth.

Nautical The lower edge of a sail.

Printing The part of a type body that forms the sides of the groove at the base.

Botany The base of the sporophyte in mosses and liverworts.

The inferior part or rank: at the foot of the class.

The part of a stocking or high-topped boot that encloses the foot.

A manner of moving; a step: walks with a light foot.

Speed or momentum, as in a race: "the only other Democrats who've demonstrated any foot till now” ( Michael Kramer).

Foot soldiers; infantry.

A unit of poetic meter consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables in any of various set combinations. For example, an iambic foot has an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.

A unit of length in the U.S. Customary and British Imperial systems equal to 12 inches (0.3048 meter). See Table at measurement.

Sediment that forms during the refining of oil and other liquids; dregs.

To go on foot; walk. Often used with it: When their car broke down, they had to foot it the rest of the way.

To dance. Often used with it: "We foot it all the night/weaving olden dances” ( William Butler Yeats).

Nautical To make headway; sail.

To go by foot over, on, or through; tread.

To execute the steps of (a dance).

To add up (a column of numbers) and write the sum at the bottom; total: footed up the bill.

To pay; defray: footed the expense of their children's education.