(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.
Footy
Definition:
(a.) Having foots, or settlings; as, footy oil, molasses, etc.
(a.) Poor; mean.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you are not booing for racist grounds, stop, because it never used to be part of your day at the footy.
(2) And it continues at footy games, BBQs, cricket matches, school, college, university, at work, the pub; we are all in a position to make a positive influence when we see unacceptable behaviour or attitudes,” he said.
(3) Australia to change law to allow strikes on more Isis combatants Read more “People need to be assured that our agencies have the capability to protect us and we take appropriate measures to make sure any footy final or any place where a lot of people are gathering do have appropriate protections,” he told the Nine Network on Wednesday.
(4) Footy news site bold.dk managed to get a hold of the Greek’s agent, who in disbelief asked if this was supposed to be a joke: “Is this a joke?
(5) On Wednesday, the publisher of the Fifa series of footie sims announced that it had extended its “official sports technology” partnership with the Premiership until 2019.
(6) "It is a remarkable but incontrovertible matter of historical fact that - in my thirty years or so of watching international footie tournaments - no team I have supported has EVER won a penalty shoot-out," writes Richard Hands of Mali, who I'm guessing isn't rooting for Uruguay to make it three.
(7) Strachan told BBC Radio 5 live: "People have problems in footy where you have an indication that something is wrong, but this one is right out of the blue.
(8) We all have a circle of influence around us, whether it’s a whole organisation, the local footy club, or simply the family around the dinner table.
(9) Which makes it all very embarrassing for Sky, which has spent a fortune trying to move away from its footie fan, taxi-driver image in the past few years.
(10) I would say there’s definitely a racist element to it,” Buckley told Fox Footy.
(11) While Logan might represent a polar extreme of full-blown footie Anglophilia, scores of other American fans fervently support EPL teams without committing to such dramatic extremes.
(12) While the stereotype is that gay men can’t and don’t play footy, the opposite perception is that only lesbians play sport.
(13) Take Si Evans for example: Si Evans (@siphev) @KidWeil RSL looking good...first time in 26 years of watching footy I've missed a goal.
(14) Shorten said Dutton’s defence that the joke was made as part of a private conversation were “not good enough,” adding, “he’s a minister, he’s a cabinet minister, he’s not some bloke on the outer at the footy, he’s a cabinet minister of the Australian government”.
(15) The Palmer United party senator said on Tuesday that Abbott and Shorten were acting like “hormone-affected schoolboys trying to out-macho each other on the footy field”.
(16) Speaking to Fox Footy post-match Goodes denied there was anything untoward going on between himself and the Blues’ supporter group.
(17) Prior’s team has gone to the usual lengths to ensure that you really feel part of the summer’s footy frenzy, with the game packing in all 203 teams from the qualifying stages, made up of 7,469 players – all of whom have their names in the game.
(18) The word from Gamescom is that Konami’s series is heading toward a new zenith, not just for the faithful acolytes but for footie simulation fans in general.
(19) I don’t think it is anything to do with the way he plays his footy.” I can tell you how Adam Goodes feels.
(20) It’s a bit of a shock, he’s a champion of this footy club,” said Swans defender Rhyce Shaw, who had previously announced he was retiring at the end of the season.