foot

Verb

• add a column of numbers

• walk
  • let's hoof it to the disco
    

• pay for something
  • pick up the tab
    
  • pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages
    
  • foot the bill
    

Noun

• a support resembling a pedal extremity
  • one foot of the chair was on the carpet
    

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

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

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

• travel by walking
  • he followed on foot
    
  • the swiftest of foot
    

• any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

• lowest support of a structure
  • it was built on a base of solid rock
    
  • he stood at the foot of the tower
    

• the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings

• 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
    

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

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  foot up , leg it , hoof , hoof it , pick , metrical foot , metrical unit , infantry , invertebrate foot , foundation , base , fundament , groundwork , substructure , understructure , animal foot , ft , human foot , pes