Word Finder - feet

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A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

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A spider has eight feet.

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Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.

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Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.

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(often used attributively) Travel by walking.

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There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.

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The base or bottom of anything.

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I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.

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The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

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We came and stood at the foot of the bed.

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The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.

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The host should sit at the foot of the table.

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A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.

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The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.

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A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.

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The flag pole at the local high school is about 20 feet high.

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A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.

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(collective) Foot soldiers; infantry.

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King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.

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(cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.

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The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.

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The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.

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The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.

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The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.

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The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.

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The bottom edge of a sail.

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To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.

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The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.

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In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.

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The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.

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The globular lower domain of a protein.

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The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.

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Fundamental principle; basis; plan.

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Recognized condition; rank; footing.

Gilbert was soon on his feet again.

His feet were bare.

I had no shoes for my feet, no coat for my back.

He jumped to his feet and looked up at the kind gentleman.

She kicked her feet and swung at him with her fists.

He planted his feet firmly and made ready to spring.

Pierre removed his feet from the sofa.

Pete threw his feet over the wagon seat and dropped to the ground.

It was time to stand on her own two feet.

Bordeaux hit the sand on his feet, a rifle in his hands.

She came to her feet, stretching her body to its maximum height.

A little further ahead, they glimpsed a white flash of tail as a deer bounded crossed the trail no more than fifty feet ahead of them.

Carefully she moved her feet into a position with better leverage.

He took her hands and helped her to her feet, his voice becoming soft and gentle, his gaze mystic.

Something about her feet hitting the floor in the morning seemed to trigger her stomach.

Talon shoved her back into the valley with a snarled threat under his breath, and she hurried out of the trough again, breathing hard by the time she'd clambered twenty feet to the top.

She swung her legs around and firmly planted her feet on the ground before accepting the hand he offered.

He was the first to his feet and dragged her up the beach.

Old shoes will serve a hero longer than they have served his valet--if a hero ever has a valet--bare feet are older than shoes, and he can make them do.

Her bare feet made no noise as she moved across the room toward him, so when she reached his side he glanced up sharply.

Her fall was brutally interrupted by a rock ledge about five feet down.

With planning and diligence, his business would be on its feet in a few years and she would be working in the pediatric ward at the hospital.

He tucked his hands in his back pockets and shuffled his feet, the color in his face deepening.

Why don't you curl up on the couch and get your bare feet off this cold floor?

She dashed on bare feet to intercept him, catching him with an index finger in the back of his belt.

In the hall beyond, most of the murmured conversation was taking place as feet tromped around the house.

Talon hauled her to her feet, holding her up by one arm when she wobbled.

He leaned against the wall a few feet from her, arms crossed and cold blue eyes on her.

His eyes were dark and warm like Bianca's, his frame just over six feet and still lanky, though he showed signs of starting to fill out.

He bounced to his feet.

The frozen sea beneath her feet was the color of tar, the black clouds above paused mid-swirl around a pop of blue sky in the storm's center.

Dean took his wife's hand and pulled her to her feet and held her until her sobbing subsided.

Infatuated by the carpet, she kept her feet bare.

The third time that he thrust out the weapon there was a loud roar and a fall, and suddenly at his feet appeared the form of a great red bear, which was nearly as big as the horse and much stronger and fiercer.

The Gargoyles were very small of stature, being less than three feet in height.

I clung to her, trembling with joy to feel the earth under my feet once more.

One carried me in his arms so that my feet would not touch the water.

We went down a hundred and twenty feet in an elevator that we might see the violent eddies and whirlpools in the deep gorge below the Falls.

It is thrown across the gorge at a height of two hundred and fifty-eight feet above the water and is supported on each bank by towers of solid rock, which are eight hundred feet apart.

With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.

He had a nightcap on his head and his feet were bare.

Rainy started to his feet as she rose, and she stopped.

His feet were cold, and he was hungry.

Two bolted to his feet at the unfamiliar voice.

He lifted her to her feet.

Several squeals and grunts were instantly heard at his feet, but the Wizard could not discover a single piglet.

As the days wore on, the drifts gradually shrunk, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter.

Then she got up and stood very still, as if listening with her feet for Mildred's "thump, thump."

Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad....

After five minutes of irksome, constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet rapidly approaching.