footnoun
uk/fʊt/us/fʊt/foot noun (BODY PART)
A1 [ C ] plural feet the part of the body at the bottom of the leg on which a person or animal stands:
C2 to stand up after you have been sitting:
A2 walking:
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- He tapped his foot to the beat of the music.
- It really hurt when Mark trod on my foot.
- My feet are so cold.
- She stood squarely, with her feet apart.
- I felt a sharp pain in my foot.
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The legs & feet of non-human animals
- claw
- cloven
- forefoot
- foreleg
- hock
- hoof
- hooves
- limb
- member
- pad
- paw
- shank
- sucker
- talon
- toe
- trotter
- web
- web-footed
- webbed
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foot noun (MEASUREMENT)
B1 [ C ] plural feet or foot written abbreviation ft a unit of measurement, equal to twelve inches or 0.3048 metres, sometimes shown by the symbol ′:
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- Twelve inches are equal to one foot.
- The plane climbed quickly to a height of 30,000 feet.
- The pond is six feet in diameter.
- The cliffs are eroding several feet a year.
- He's six feet tall.
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Measurements of length & distance
- breadth
- cm
- footer
- ft
- head
- inch
- kilometre
- km
- metre
- micrometre
- micron
- mile
- mm
- mpg
- nanometre
- range
- scalar
- sq
- yard
- yd
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foot noun (BOTTOM)
C1 [ S ] the bottom or lower end of a space or object:
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Edges & extremities of objects
- apex
- apices
- bevel
- border
- bottom
- brim
- brow
- crest
- edge
- framed
- fringe
- front
- head
- palm-fringed
- peripheral
- periphery
- rim
- surmount
- tip
- vertex
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foot noun (POETRY)
[ C ] plural feet specialized literature a unit of division of a line of poetry containing one strong beat and one or two weaker ones
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Literature
- alliteration
- antihero
- arch-villain
- baddy
- ballad
- bard
- dramatist
- epigram
- hero
- heroine
- iambic
- ingénue
- limerick
- poetry
- prose poem
- prosody
- psalm
- quatrain
- stylistics
- tragicomedy
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Idiom(s)
footverb [ T ]
uk/fʊt/us/fʊt/informalto pay an amount of money:
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Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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