单词 | foot |
释义 | Word Frequency foot(fʊt) nounWord forms: plural feet (fiːt) 1. the part of the vertebrate leg below the ankle joint that is in contact with the ground during standing and walking ▶ Related adjective: pedal2. the part of a garment that covers a foot 3. any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates, including molluscs 4. botany the lower part of some plant structures, as of a developing moss sporophyte embedded in the parental tissue 5. a. a unit of length equal to one third of a yard or 12 inches. 1 Imperial foot is equivalent to 0.3048 metre Abbreviation: ftb. any of various units of length used at different times and places, typically about10 per cent greater than the Imperial foot 6. any part resembling a foot in form or function the foot of a chair 7. the lower part of something; base; bottom the foot of the page the foot of a hill 8. the end of a series or group the foot of the list 9. manner of walking or moving; tread; step a heavy foot 10. a. infantry, esp in the British army b. (as modifier) a foot soldier 11. any of various attachments on a sewing machine that hold the fabric in position, such as a presser foot for ordinary sewing and a zipper foot 12. music a. a unit used in classifying organ pipes according to their pitch, in terms of the length of an equivalent column of air b. this unit applied to stops and registers on other instruments 13. printing a. the margin at the bottom of a page b. the undersurface of a piece of type 14. prosody a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm 15. a foot in the door 16. kick with the wrong foot 17. my foot! 18. of foot 19. on foot 20. one foot in the grave 21. on the right foot 22. on the wrong foot 23. put a foot wrong 24. put one's best foot forward 25. put one's foot down 26. put one's foot in it 27. set on foot 28. tread under foot 29. under foot verb ▶ USAGE In front of another noun, the plural for the unit of length is foot: a 20-foot putt; his 70-foot ketch. Foot can also be used instead of feet when mentioning a quantity and in front of words like tall: four foot of snow; he is at least six foot tall See also feet 30. to dance to music (esp in the phrase foot it) 31. (transitive) to walk over or set foot on; traverse (esp in the phrase foot it) 32. (transitive) to pay the entire cost of (esp in the phrase foot the bill) 33. (usually foll by up) archaic or dialect to add up Derived forms footless (ˈfootless) adjective Word origin Old English fōt; related to Old Norse fōtr, Gothic fōtus, Old High German fuoz, Latin pēs, Greek pous, Sanskrit padWord Frequency Foot(fʊt) noun Michael (Mackintosh). 1913–2010, British Labour politician and journalist; secretary of state for employment (1974–76); leader of the House of Commons (1976–79); leader of the Labour Party (1980–83) |
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