| 单词 | foot |
| 释义 | foot (once / 15 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5v Your foot is like your leg's hand, and a foot is twelve inches. When you walk, you go by foot. Since feet are so important, the word foot has many meanings. The main one is that thing below your ankle — people have feet, and so do many animals. The lower part of a bed is the foot of the bed — the foot of a mountain is also where you would expect it. The lower part of anything could be called a foot. Paying for something is footing the bill, and footing up a column of numbers is adding them up. WORD FAMILYfoot: feet, footed, footer, footing, footless, foots, forefoot, underfoot+/footed: footedly, footedness/footer: footers/footing: footings/forefoot: forefeet, forefoots/underfoot: underfoots USAGE EXAMPLESBut it’s hard to be objective when the scale is still creaking beneath your feet. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “Because the sign is 45 feet high, it’s extremely easy to slip and fall,” he said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) The quarterback climbed to his feet and limped back to the huddle. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings Syn|Hypo|Hyper animal foot fossorial foot foot adapted for digging as in moles hoofthe foot of an ungulate mammal bird's footthe foot of a bird webfoota foot having the toes connected by folds of skin trotterfoot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food forefoota front foot of a quadruped hindfoota rear foot of a quadruped pawa clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped cloven foot, cloven hoofa hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine) clawa bird's foot zygodactyl foota bird's foot having the first and fourth toes of each foot directed backward and the second and third forward heterodactyl foota bird's foot having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward webbed foota bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes lobate foota bird's foot having separate toes each with membranous flaps along the sides horse's footthe hoof of a horse forepawfront paw; analogous to the human hand pedal extremity, vertebrate foot the extremity of the limb in vertebrates 2n 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|Hypo|Hyper human foot, pes flatfoot, pes planus, splayfoot a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out pedal extremity, vertebrate foot the extremity of the limb in vertebrates 3n any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates Syn|Hypo|Hyper invertebrate foot tube foot tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration organ a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function 4n travel by walking he followed on foot the swiftest of foot Hyper walk the act of walking somewhere 5n a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger Hyper intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent a person secretly employed in espionage for a government 6n an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot Syn|Hypo|Hyper infantry paratroops infantry trained and equipped to parachute army unit a military unit that is part of an army 7v walk 2Syn|Hyper hoof, hoof it, leg it walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 1n 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|Hyper head the top of something bottom the lowest part of anything 2n lowest support of a structure he stood at the foot of the tower Syn|Hypo|Hyper base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure bed a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track raft foundationa foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete railroad beda bed on which railroad track is laid roadbeda bed supporting a road support supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation 3n a support resembling a pedal extremity 3one foot of the chair was on the carpet Hyper support any device that bears the weight of another thing n a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard 4he is six feet tall Syn|Hyper ft linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length n (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper metrical foot, metrical unit dactyl a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables iamb, iambusa metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables anapaest, anapesta metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables amphibracha metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') trocheea metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables spondeea metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dibrach, pyrrhica metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse 1v pay for something foot the bill Syn|Hyper pick pay give money, usually in exchange for goods or services 2v add a column of numbers Syn|Hyper foot up add, add together make an addition by combining numbers |
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