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单词 foot
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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:

I've got a blister on my left foot.
I've been on my feet (= standing) all day and I'm exhausted.
informal You look tired. Why don't you put your feet up (= sit or lie down with your feet resting on something)?
Please wipe your feet (= clean the bottom of your shoes) before you come into the house.
get/rise to your feet

C2 to stand up after you have been sitting:

He rose to his feet when she walked in.
on foot

A2 walking:

Are you going by bicycle or on foot?

More examples

  • 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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The foot
Walking and walkers

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 ′:

The man was standing only a few feet away.
She is five feet/foot three inches tall.
She is 5′ 3″ tall.

More examples

  • 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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Mathematical symbols

foot noun (BOTTOM)

C1 [ S ] the bottom or lower end of a space or object:

They built a house at the foot of a cliff.
She dreamed she saw someone standing at the foot of her bed.
There's a note explaining the quotation at the foot of the page.

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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)

be back on your feet
land on your feet
get your feet wet
get a/your foot in the door
get off on the right/wrong foot
have a foot in both camps
have feet of clay
have one foot in the grave
have/keep your feet on the ground
my foot
not put a foot wrong
put your foot down
put your foot in it
hardly/barely put one foot in front of the other
rush/run sb off their feet
set foot in somewhere
under your feet

footverb [ T ]

uk/fʊt/us/fʊt/informal

to pay an amount of money:

His parents footed the bill for his college tuition.
They refused to foot the cost of the wedding.
The company will foot her expenses.

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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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footnoun

uk/fʊt/us

[ C ] plural feet, foot written abbreviation ft MEASURES a unit of measurement equal to 12 inches or 0.3048 metres, sometimes shown by the symbol ′:

His brief was to provide 10 million square feet of office space on a 16-acre site.

[ S ] the bottom or lower end of something:

the foot of sth Additional notes are added at the foot of the page.
be run/rushed off your feet

to be extremely busy:

Business was booming, and everyone in the office was rushed off their feet.
drag your feet

to be very slow in doing sth, for example taking a decision:

Reformers claim that the FSA is dragging its feet on banking reform.
fall/land on your feet

to be successful or lucky, especially after a period of not having success or luck:

After the redundancies, about a fifth of the workers immediately landed on their feet, getting jobs at a local start-up company.
get back on your feet also get sb/sth back on their feet

to start experiencing an improved situation after a time of trouble or difficulty or to help a person, company, etc. to do this:

There is enormous support for quick, low-interest loans to help companies get back on their feet after a disaster.
get a/your foot in the door

to enter a business or an organization at a low level, but with a chance of being more successful in the future:

Graduate Careers Opportunities will help you get a foot in the door of your chosen career.
get your feet wet

to start doing something new:

The company got its feet wet by taking a stand at the trader's exhibition.

footverb

uk/fʊt/us
foot the bill

to pay the cost of something:

Senior managers might be able to get employers to foot the bill for a weekend executive-MBA program.
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