What's the difference between boot and foot?

Boot


Definition:

  • (n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
  • (n.) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
  • (n.) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  • (v. t.) To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
  • (v. t.) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
  • (n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
  • (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
  • (n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  • (n.) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  • (n.) An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
  • (n.) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
  • (v. t.) To put boots on, esp. for riding.
  • (v. t.) To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
  • (v. i.) To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
  • (n.) Booty; spoil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (4) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
  • (5) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (6) Meanwhile, we have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri.
  • (7) That would kickstart the spin again and then some, in doublequick time to boot.
  • (8) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
  • (9) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (10) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (11) William Boot's work was done, and it was time to go home.
  • (12) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
  • (13) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (14) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (16) cc @ kidweil #USMNT March 23, 2013 5 mins of stoppage time we're hearing... 4.00am GMT 88 mins ...Barrantes is over the ball and he drives it low and hard, but Dempsey boots it clear.
  • (17) Politicians On the surface a recession would be a disaster for Labour, yet it doesn't always follow that the government party gets booted out when times are hard.
  • (18) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
  • (19) The player can expect another reminder from the boot manufacturer that “all or nothing” must still only be applied within reason.
  • (20) The box itself is nearly identical to that of the 5S, while a picture of the phone being turned on shows the familiar Apple logo on a boot screen.

Foot


Definition:

  • (n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.
  • (n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.
  • (n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.
  • (n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.
  • (n.) Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
  • (n.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.
  • (n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.
  • (n.) The lower edge of a sail.
  • (v. i.) To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
  • (v. i.) To walk; -- opposed to ride or fly.
  • (v. t.) To kick with the foot; to spurn.
  • (v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
  • (v. t.) To tread; as, to foot the green.
  • (v. t.) To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.
  • (v. t.) The size or strike with the talon.
  • (v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
  • (2) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
  • (3) Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
  • (4) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (5) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (6) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (7) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
  • (8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
  • (9) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
  • (10) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
  • (11) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
  • (12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
  • (13) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
  • (14) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (15) Puskas, possessed of a left foot of astonishing power, and his team colleagues, Sandor Kocsis and Zoltan Czibor, all found their way to Spain.
  • (16) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (17) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
  • (18) Osteocutaneous flaps from the foot are being utilized more for thumb and digit reconstruction.
  • (19) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
  • (20) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.