foot (
http://definr.com/foot)
n 1: a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a
yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn:
ft]
2: the foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his
trousers"; "armored from head to foot" [syn:
human foot,
pes]
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: travel by foot; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of
foot"
5: a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being [syn: {animal
foot}]
6: a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the
chair was on the carpet"
7: 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,
groundwork,
substructure,
understructure]
8: any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in
invertebrates [syn:
invertebrate foot]
9: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot;
"there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed
foot" [syn:
infantry]
10: a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic
rhythm [syn:
metrical foot,
metrical unit]
v 1: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of
high-interest mortgages" [syn:
pick]
2: informal or colloquial synonyms of 'walk' " [syn:
leg it,
hoof,
hoof it]