ENGLISH: foot - CREOLE: pye



Overview of noun foot



The noun foot has 11 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)



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

2. (426) 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")

3. (40) 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")

4. (30) foot -- (travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot")

5. (27) animal foot, foot -- (the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings)

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

7. (3) 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")

8. (3) foot, invertebrate foot -- (any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates)

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

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

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



Overview of verb foot



The verb foot has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



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

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

3. foot, foot up -- (add a column of numbers)

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