Word Finder - foot

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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.

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To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

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To pay (a bill).

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To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

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To walk.

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To tread.

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to foot the green

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To set on foot; to establish; to land.

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To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).

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To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.

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to foot (or foot up) an account

He put his foot in the stirrup.

Carmen put a foot on the first step and then heard voices.

Then he set out on foot to walk to another city.

He tested her foot for circulation.

The possibility of escape was nil so secure was our twelve foot square cell.

What happen to yow foot?

He turned and walked away, his head nearly a foot above the others.

Like the others this fifth man seemed calm; he wrapped his loose cloak closer and rubbed one bare foot with the other.

Without Pierre, she'd never set foot in such a dangerous situation.

When Balashev had ended, Napoleon again took out his snuffbox, sniffed at it, and stamped his foot twice on the floor as a signal.

He moved from one foot to the other.

Tikhon did not like riding, and always went on foot, never lagging behind the cavalry.

She stamped her foot with impatience.

He dragged over a chair with his foot.

After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.

Most of the store fronts were boarded up and a fifty foot blackened gap separated the two largest structures.

The minute he sets foot in Ireland, there will be no way to keep things quiet.

Such obvious features as the number of segments in the foot and the shape of the feeler were used by the early entomologists for distinguishing the great groups of beetles.

These trees were alive and apparently flourishing at midsummer, and many of them had grown a foot, though completely girdled; but after another winter such were without exception dead.

Stepping cautiously from one foot to the other she ran like a kitten the few steps to the door and grasped the cold door handle.

When he didn't stop, she stamped her foot.

She lifted the cat to her lap and turned so the light from the doorway would fall on the foot.

I sat at the desk as he reclined on the bed, more suitable to his five foot seven frame.

There was a sound, perhaps a foot fall, not behind them, but ahead.

Rhyn planted one foot at the base of Kiki.s neck and wrenched his head back.

By highway, the journey was fifty miles—ten miles north to Ridgway, then westerly to Placerville and then back toward the southeast, all necessary to circumnavigate fourteen-thousand foot Mount Sneffles and its towering neighbors.

Edith tried to close her door but Fred deftly slipped his foot in the way.

Once beyond access to the river below, the seldom-used path presented an unbroken cover of fresh white, now blanketed in more than a foot of fresh powder, as it followed the large pipe toward the reservoir.

She left him in the coop with the chicken and marched across the yard to the house, her boots making sucking noises each time she lifted her foot from the mud.

Rhyn focused hard on the demon lord then on putting one foot, then the other, beneath his shaking body.

Fred wanted to drive the extra 30 miles or more and visit the rest stop drop location but Dean put his foot down, pointing out that it was two months earlier when the money disappeared.

I had my foot in the door and he darn near busted it, all the time saying his wife had a big mouth and didn't know what she was talking about.

This is a somewhat heterogeneous group, most of whose members are characterized by clubbed feelers and simple, unbroadened tarsal segments - usually five on each foot - but in some familie andenera the males have less than the normal number on the feet of one pair.

The first larval stage is the "triungulin," a tiny, active, armoured larva with long legs (each foot with three claws) and cercopods.

They were half clad, hungry, too weak to get away on foot and had no means of obtaining a conveyance.

One shot struck a French soldier's foot, and from behind the screens came the strange sound of a few voices shouting.

Katie set the tray on the bed then sat at the foot, leaning against the bed frame.

Gabe's weapons were out before his second foot was out of the portal.

Shaking and terrified, Deidre nonetheless held his gaze as she closed the distance between them, until she stood less than a foot away.

The ledge was just wide enough for her foot to fit fully.

She pressed the front of her body against the building, dug her fingertips into indents in the stone, and slid her foot along the roughened ledge to the right, stepping slowly and forcing her head up.

She rose unsteadily and brushed some of the glass away with her bare foot, near tears.

She stepped inside, sagged against the wall, and lifted one bloodied foot.

She pried glass free with shaking hands between sobs, then set her foot down and did the same for the other.

She feared asking more and braced herself when it took one foot in its hand.

Sasha's servants wouldn't get within a foot of Rhyn; instead, they shaped the magic of Sasha's realm around him and gave him only one direction to go, that which Sasha wanted.

They tumbled to the ground, one foot --she wasn't sure whose --knocking the amulet away.

She stood for a long moment before striking out after them on foot.

The room contained two full-sized beds and two large wardrobes along with military-style trunks at the foot of each bed.

Steam and dampness clung to her as she set foot in the bathing room.