1. The terminal part of the human leg below the ankle
   "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armoured from head to foot"; "She stubbed her human foot on the coffee table";
   - human foot, pes
    
2. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
   "he is six feet tall";
   - ft
    
3. The lower part of anything
   "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"
    
4. The pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
   "The elephant's large animal foot is adapted to support its massive weight";
   - animal foot
    
5. Lowest support of a structure
   "he stood at the foot of the tower";
   - foundation, base, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure
    
6. Any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
   "The snail's invertebrate foot allowed it to glide smoothly across surfaces";
   - invertebrate foot
    
7. A support resembling a pedal extremity
   "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"
    
8. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
   "An iamb is a type of metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one";
   - metrical foot, metrical unit
    
9. (military) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
   "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot";
   - infantry
    
10. A member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
    "The undercover foot blended in with the pedestrians while observing the suspect"
     
11. Travel by walking
    "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"

1. Pay for something
   "foot the bill";
   - pick
    
2. [informal] Walk
   "let's foot it to the disco";
   - leg it [informal], hoof [informal], hoof it [informal], ankle [N. Amer, informal]
    
3. (arithmetic) add a column of numbers
   "The accountant footed up the expenses";
   - foot up

Derived forms: footed, foots, feet, footing

Type of: add, add together, army unit, beat, bottom, cadence, intelligence agent, intelligence officer, linear measure, linear unit, measure, meter [US], metre [Brit, Cdn], operative, organ, pay, pedal extremity, secret agent, spook [informal], spy, support, vertebrate foot, walk

Antonym: head

Part of: construction, homo, human, human being, invertebrate, leg, man, pace, peg [informal], pin [informal], stick [informal], structure, yard

Encyclopedia: Foot, Paul