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Meaning of foot

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  foot
      n 1: 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" [syn: {foot}, {human foot}, {pes}]
      2: a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a
         yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn: {foot}, {ft}]
      3: 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" [ant: {head}]
      4: the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
         [syn: {animal foot}, {foot}]
      5: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of
         solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn:
         {foundation}, {base}, {fundament}, {foot}, {groundwork},
         {substructure}, {understructure}]
      6: any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in
         invertebrates [syn: {foot}, {invertebrate foot}]
      7: travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of
         foot"
      8: a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as
         a passenger
      9: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there
         came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"
         [syn: {infantry}, {foot}]
      10: (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit
          of poetic rhythm [syn: {metrical foot}, {foot}, {metrical
          unit}]
      11: a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the
          chair was on the carpet"
      v 1: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden
           of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" [syn: {foot},
           {pick}]
      2: walk; "let's hoof it to the disco" [syn: {foot}, {leg it},
         {hoof}, {hoof it}]
      3: add a column of numbers [syn: {foot}, {foot up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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