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foot is a noun and verb meaning "the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint". It carries 14 recorded senses.
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 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
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”
military
(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
prosody
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.