1. (

• 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" ;

2. (

• foot ,
• ft

) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall" ;

3. (

• 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. (

• animal_foot ,
• foot ,

) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings ;

5. (

• 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" ;

6. (

• foot ,
• invertebrate_foot

) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates ;

7. (

• foot

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

8. (

• foot

) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger ;

9. (

• infantry ,
• foot

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

10. (

• metrical_foot ,
• foot ,
• metrical_unit

) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm ;

11. (

• foot ,

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

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 ;